Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 10, 2012, 11:50 AM EST for Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
- Dec 10, 2012, 11:50 AM EST (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2012, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carroll County, GA, Haralson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
445
WUUS52 KFFC 101650
SVRFFC
GAC045-143-101715-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0347.121210T1650Z-121210T1715Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1150 AM EST MON DEC 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1215 PM EST
* AT 1144 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF BOWDON...MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ROOPVILLE...MOUNT ZION...WACO...BREMEN...CARROLLTON AND TEMPLE.
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 3362 8532 3381 8503 3379 8492 3345 8494
3343 8530
TIME...MOT...LOC 1649Z 250DEG 31KT 3358 8522
$$1 follow-up statement
681
WWUS52 KFFC 101704
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1204 PM EST MON DEC 10 2012
GAC143-101713-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0347.000000T0000Z-121210T1715Z/
HARALSON GA-
1204 PM EST MON DEC 10 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN HARALSON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8
6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.
LAT...LON 3366 8514 3371 8507 3372 8506 3373 8505
3377 8492 3352 8494 3346 8495 3345 8499
3344 8526
TIME...MOT...LOC 1703Z 253DEG 45KT 3365 8501
$$
GAC045-101715-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0347.000000T0000Z-121210T1715Z/
CARROLL GA-
1204 PM EST MON DEC 10 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 PM EST
FOR CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY...
AT 1158 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP
TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ABILENE...MOVING EAST AT 50
MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SEATON
LAKE.
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 3366 8514 3371 8507 3372 8506 3373 8505
3377 8492 3352 8494 3346 8495 3345 8499
3344 8526
TIME...MOT...LOC 1703Z 253DEG 45KT 3365 8501
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2:57 AM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and 6 more | 16 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 63 min |
| Dec 10, 6:13 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Murray, Whitfield | 47 min |
| Dec 10, 6:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 31 min |
| Dec 10, 6:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 35 min |
| Dec 10, 8:15 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs and 2 more | 105 min |
| Dec 10, 11:24 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 51 min |
| Dec 10, 12:06 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 39 min |
| Dec 10, 12:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 48 min |
| Dec 10, 3:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 49 min |
| Dec 10, 3:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 31 min |
| Dec 10, 3:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 47 min |
| Dec 10, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Morgan, Putnam | 43 min |
Nearby
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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.