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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 8, 2012Towns County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2012, 8:53 PM EDT for Towns County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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
Jul 8, 2012, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2012, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Towns County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2012-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 185 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2012-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

696 
WUUS52 KFFC 090053
SVRFFC
GAC281-090145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0251.120709T0053Z-120709T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
853 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 850 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
  HIAWASSEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  TITUS...PLUM ORCHARD GAP SHELTER AND TATE CITY.

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 3499 8354 3495 8354 3494 8355 3493 8359
      3492 8359 3491 8362 3487 8365 3484 8374
      3499 8384 3500 8355
TIME...MOT...LOC 0053Z 241DEG 8KT 3496 8370

$$
1 follow-up statement
058 
WWUS52 KFFC 090105
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
905 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2012

GAC281-090145-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0251.000000T0000Z-120709T0145Z/
TOWNS GA-
905 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN TOWNS COUNTY...

AT 903 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
TITUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PLUM
ORCHARD GAP SHELTER AND TATE CITY.

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 3489 8365 3491 8374 3499 8378 3500 8355
      3499 8354 3495 8354 3494 8355 3493 8359
      3492 8359 3491 8362
TIME...MOT...LOC 0105Z 241DEG 8KT 3497 8367

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 2:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMurray36 min
Jul 9, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLumpkin28 min
Jul 9, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry, Rockdale36 min
Jul 9, 4:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb44 min
Jul 9, 4:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJones37 min
Jul 9, 5:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCNewton, Rockdale27 min
Jul 9, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCOconee40 min
Jul 9, 5:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMorgan29 min
Jul 9, 5:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkinson38 min
Jul 9, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTwiggs30 min
Jul 9, 5:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWalton37 min
Jul 9, 5:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGreene33 min
Jul 9, 6:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkinson33 min
Jul 9, 6:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCOconee, Walton32 min
Jul 9, 6:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCNewton26 min
Jul 9, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Morgan, Oconee, Walton53 min
Jul 9, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper, Morgan, Newton49 min
Jul 9, 6:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHancock, Taliaferro, Warren29 min
Jul 9, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock, Warren40 min
Jul 9, 6:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLaurens38 min
Jul 9, 6:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCrisp34 min
Jul 9, 6:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCSumter33 min
Jul 9, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter, Webster38 min
Jul 9, 7:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke28 min
Jul 9, 7:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFulton25 min
Jul 9, 7:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWarren24 min
Jul 9, 7:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMadison34 min
Jul 9, 7:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHancock31 min
Jul 9, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock, Washington25 min
Jul 9, 7:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFulton28 min
Jul 9, 7:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHaralson30 min
Jul 9, 7:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCButts25 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.