Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2012, 4:52 PM EDT for Coweta County, Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
- May 3, 2012, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coweta County, GA, Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
753
WUUS52 KFFC 032052
SVRFFC
GAC077-199-032130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0087.120503T2052Z-120503T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
452 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 530 PM EDT
* AT 450 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
GRANTVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LUTHERSVILLE AND MORELAND.
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 3336 8489 3334 8467 3314 8472 3317 8486
3320 8487 3322 8486 3323 8491
TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 194DEG 7KT 3322 8481
$$1 follow-up statement
019
WWUS52 KFFC 032114
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
514 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012
GAC077-199-032130-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0087.000000T0000Z-120503T2130Z/
MERIWETHER GA-COWETA GA-
514 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHERN COWETA AND NORTHWESTERN MERIWETHER COUNTIES...
AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
GRANTVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MORELAND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8
6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.
&&
LAT...LON 3336 8489 3334 8467 3314 8472 3317 8486
3320 8487 3322 8486 3323 8491
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 194DEG 7KT 3326 8480
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 53 min |
| May 3, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 36 min |
| May 3, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Heard | 31 min |
| May 3, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 32 min |
| May 3, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 31 min |
| May 3, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 22 min |
| May 3, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 39 min |
| May 3, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 34 min |
| May 3, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 27 min |
| May 3, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 28 min |
| May 3, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 23 min |
| May 3, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 23 min |
| May 3, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 34 min |
| May 3, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 31 min |
| May 3, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 36 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.