Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2012, 7:29 PM EDT for Bartow County, Floyd County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2012, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2012, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Adairsville, GA | NUMEROUS TREES REPORTED DOWN INCLUDING ONE ON A MOBILE HOME IN AND AROUND ADAIRSVILLE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
746 WUUS52 KFFC 062329 SVRFFC GAC015-115-129-070015- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0247.120706T2329Z-120707T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 729 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA EAST CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 723 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 ADAIRSVILLE...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KINGSTON...PLAINVILLE AND SHANNON. 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. && LAT...LON 3418 8508 3441 8514 3446 8481 3427 8478 TIME...MOT...LOC 2329Z 084DEG 6KT 3436 8488 $$
1 follow-up statement
683 WWUS52 KFFC 062340 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 740 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012 GAC015-115-129-070015- /O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0247.000000T0000Z-120707T0015Z/ BARTOW GA-FLOYD GA-GORDON GA- 740 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN GORDON...EAST CENTRAL FLOYD AND NORTHWESTERN BARTOW COUNTIES... AT 733 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ADAIRSVILLE...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KINGSTON...PLAINVILLE...SHANNON AND PINSON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX. && LAT...LON 3443 8486 3428 8481 3418 8508 3441 8514 TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 084DEG 6KT 3436 8490 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union, White | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 8:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Spalding | 52 min |
| Jul 5, 8:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade, Walker | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray, Pickens | 25 min |
| Jul 5, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Spalding | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Monroe | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Polk | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 8:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Monroe | 25 min |
| Jul 5, 9:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 9:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 10:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 10:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 23 min |
| Jul 5, 11:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 11:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 11:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 11:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 11:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 12:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 12:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 12:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 12:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 1:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Newton, Putnam, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 7:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry | 36 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.