Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 338, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2012, 4:34 PM EDT for Dooly County, Houston County, Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 14, 2012, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dooly County, GA, Houston County, GA, Pulaski County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 4:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 S Perry, GA | HOUSTON COUNTY EMA RELAYED A REPORT OF TWO TREES DOWN IN SOUTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY. |
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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
541
WUUS52 KFFC 142034
SVRFFC
GAC093-153-235-142115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0338.120814T2034Z-120814T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
434 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 515 PM EDT
* AT 432 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
UNADILLA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ELKO...GROVE PARK...GROVANIA...CLINCHFIELD...HAYNEVILLE...
BROWNDALE...KLONDIKE AND SAND BED.
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 3251 8353 3228 8349 3223 8382 3234 8384
3241 8383
TIME...MOT...LOC 2034Z 250DEG 17KT 3234 8375
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 3:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Haralson, Heard, Paulding, Polk | 79 min |
| Aug 14, 8:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Muscogee and 1 more | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 9:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 9:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 9:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Marion, Schley, Taylor | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Macon, Peach, Taylor | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Peach, Twiggs and 1 more | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Johnson, Laurens, Twiggs, Washington, Wilkinson | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Washington | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Warren, Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 11 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.