Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT for Bibb County, Houston County, Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min. 2 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
- Mar 16, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bibb County, GA, Houston County, GA, Twiggs County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:33 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | Middle Georgia Regional, GA | MIDDLE GEORGIA REGIONAL AIRPORT MANAGER REPORTED HAIL AT LEAST THE SIZE OF HALF AN INCH IN DIAMETER AND GROWING. AIRPORT WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTED HAIL BETWEEN 233 PM EDT AND 240 PM EDT. |
| Mar 16, 2:33 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Middle Georgia Regional, GA | MIDDLE GEORGIA REGIONAL AIRPORT MANAGER REPORTED NICKEL SIZED HAIL. AIRPORT WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTED HAIL BETWEEN 233 PM EDT AND 240 PM EDT. |
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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
852 WUUS52 KFFC 161831 SVRFFC GAC021-153-289-161915- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0060.120316T1831Z-120316T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 231 PM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTH CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA CENTRAL TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF WARNER ROBINS...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ELBERTA...ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE...HUBER...DRY BRANCH...RIPLEY... MYRICKS MILL...FITZPATRICK...BULLARD AND MARION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 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 3279 8334 3255 8338 3263 8371 3280 8365 TIME...MOT...LOC 1831Z 278DEG 8KT 3270 8362 $$
2 follow-up statements
351 WWUS52 KFFC 161843 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 243 PM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012 GAC021-153-289-161915- /O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0060.000000T0000Z-120316T1915Z/ TWIGGS GA-BIBB GA-HOUSTON GA- 243 PM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL HOUSTON...SOUTHEASTERN BIBB AND CENTRAL TWIGGS COUNTIES... AT 239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DIME SIZED HAIL OR LARGER NEAR THE MIDDLE GEORGIA REGIONAL AIRPORT. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MIDDLE GEORGIA REGIONAL AIRPORT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE...HUBER...RIPLEY...FITZPATRICK...BULLARD AND MARION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX. && LAT...LON 3277 8335 3257 8338 3263 8369 3278 8363 TIME...MOT...LOC 1842Z 278DEG 8KT 3269 8361 $$
808
WWUS52 KFFC 161855
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
255 PM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012
GAC021-153-289-161915-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0060.000000T0000Z-120316T1915Z/
TWIGGS GA-BIBB GA-HOUSTON GA-
255 PM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM EDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL HOUSTON...SOUTHEASTERN BIBB AND CENTRAL TWIGGS
COUNTIES...
AT 253 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED
HAIL. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DIME SIZED HAIL OR
LARGER NEAR THE MIDDLE GEORGIA REGIONAL AIRPORT. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR ELBERTA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROBINS
AIR FORCE BASE...HUBER...RIPLEY...FITZPATRICK...BULLARD AND MARION.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
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 3262 8366 3271 8364 3278 8358 3277 8335
3257 8338
TIME...MOT...LOC 1854Z 283DEG 8KT 3268 8359
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 8:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 8:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 8:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 9:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 9:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 9:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 10:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 10:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 10:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 12:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 12:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 1:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 2:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 10 min |
| Mar 16, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 22 min |
| Mar 16, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 14 min |
| Mar 16, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 25 min |
| Mar 16, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 36 min |
| Mar 16, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 36 min |
| Mar 16, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 45 min |
| Mar 16, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 50 min |
| Mar 16, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 7:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 42 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.