Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2012, 8:49 AM EST for Harris County, Meriwether County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. 3 reports 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
- Feb 24, 2012, 8:49 AM EST (13:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 9:15 AM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Harris County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:49 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:55 AM EST | HAIL 0.88 | West Point, GA | |
| Feb 24, 9:05 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 6 Nw Whitesville-Pine L, GA | A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN NEAR ADAMS ROAD AND GEORGIA HIGHWAY 18 IN TROUP COUNTY. |
| Feb 24, 9:05 AM EST | HAIL 1.75 | 6 Se Lagrange, GA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:48 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
586
WUUS52 KFFC 241349
SVRFFC
GAC145-199-285-241415-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0032.120224T1349Z-120224T1415Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
849 AM EST FRI FEB 24 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 915 AM EST
* AT 844 AM EST...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 WEST
POINT...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LAGRANGE...PINE MOUNTAIN-CALLAWAY GARDENS...WARM SPRINGS...
GREENVILLE AND WOODBURY.
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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FRIDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3318 8460 3289 8454 3283 8517 3284 8516
3285 8518 3287 8519 3298 8522 3301 8522
TIME...MOT...LOC 1349Z 255DEG 59KT 3293 8515
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 8:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 8:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 8:33 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Newton | 27 min |
| Feb 24, 8:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 9:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Spalding | 44 min |
| Feb 24, 9:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 9:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 9:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 9:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 9:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 9:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 10:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 10:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 10:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 10:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Pike | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 10:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Morgan, Putnam, Taliaferro | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 10:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe | 22 min |
| Feb 24, 11:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 11:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 11:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Heard, Troup | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 11:25 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 11:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Putnam | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 11:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 11:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette, Harris, Henry, Meriwether, Pike, Rockdale and 3 more | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 12:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 12:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 41 min |
| Feb 24, 12:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Butts, Clarke, Greene, Jasper, Jones and 10 more | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 12:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 12:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Crawford, Greene, Jasper, Lamar, Marion and 7 more | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 1:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Greene, Hancock, Houston and 10 more | 23 min |
| Feb 24, 2:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 26 min |
| Feb 24, 2:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 2:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dodge, Johnson, Laurens, Pulaski, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 3:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair and 4 more | 51 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.