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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 20125 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2012, 12:59 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2012, 12:59 PM EDT (16:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2012, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Dodge County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 12:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 886 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

445 
WUUS52 KFFC 051659
SVRFFC
GAC091-209-271-279-309-051745-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0149.120605T1659Z-120605T1745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1259 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME EAST CENTRAL DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHWESTERN TOOMBS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 1255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MCRAE...
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  SCOTLAND...ALAMO...UVALDA AND ALSTON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8
6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3202 8296 3219 8289 3211 8237 3196 8241
      3196 8248 3194 8249 3195 8256 3193 8259
      3192 8261
TIME...MOT...LOC 1700Z 284DEG 20KT 3208 8282

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 5:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	24 min
Jun 5, 5:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	35 min
Jun 5, 5:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Dade, Walker	48 min
Jun 5, 6:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Polk, Walker	35 min
Jun 5, 7:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	24 min
Jun 5, 11:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Monroe	31 min
Jun 5, 11:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	25 min
Jun 5, 11:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	34 min
Jun 5, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Jones, Laurens and 2 more	39 min
Jun 5, 12:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	35 min
Jun 5, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	27 min
Jun 5, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler	42 min
Jun 5, 12:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	51 min
Jun 5, 12:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Twiggs, Wilkinson	46 min
Jun 5, 12:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Peach, Pulaski, Twiggs	25 min
Jun 5, 1:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Toombs	24 min
Jun 5, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Troup	43 min
Jun 5, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Pulaski, Telfair, Wheeler, Wilcox	38 min
Jun 5, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Talbot, Troup	46 min
Jun 5, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	42 min
Jun 5, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Montgomery	31 min
Jun 5, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Schley, Sumter, Webster	45 min
Jun 5, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	52 min
Jun 5, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	34 min
Jun 5, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Macon, Peach, Taylor	25 min
Jun 5, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Meriwether	32 min
Jun 5, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	28 min
Jun 5, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	47 min
Jun 5, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Houston, Macon, Peach, Taylor	44 min
Jun 5, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	35 min
Jun 5, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike and 1 more	32 min
Jun 5, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox	49 min
Jun 5, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach, Twiggs	44 min
Jun 5, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Lamar, Pike, Spalding and 1 more	33 min
Jun 5, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Twiggs, Wilkinson	52 min
Jun 5, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	34 min
Jun 5, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Henry, Lamar, Monroe	31 min
Jun 5, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens, Wilkinson	45 min
Jun 5, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	23 min
Jun 5, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper	25 min
Jun 5, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen	39 min
Jun 5, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	24 min
Jun 5, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen	33 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.