Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2012, 6:46 PM EDT for Pickens 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
- May 6, 2012, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:52 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | 2 Ese Talking Rock, GA | ONE HALF INCH HAIL REPORTED NEAR TALKING ROCK. |
| May 6, 7:10 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Jasper, GA | QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN JASPER. REPORT RELAYED BY WFO BIRMINGHAM. |
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, 10.8 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
- 1435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
800
WUUS52 KFFC 062246
SVRFFC
GAC227-062330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0095.120506T2246Z-120506T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
646 PM EDT SUN MAY 6 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT
* AT 645 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JASPER THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
TALKING ROCK.
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 3448 8432 3440 8438 3437 8446 3438 8452
3443 8460 3452 8457 3455 8446
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 130DEG 1KT 3446 8448
$$1 follow-up statement
427
WWUS52 KFFC 062316
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
716 PM EDT SUN MAY 6 2012
GAC227-062330-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-120506T2330Z/
PICKENS GA-
716 PM EDT SUN MAY 6 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM EDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY...
AT 713 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TALMADGE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8
6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.
&&
LAT...LON 3440 8439 3439 8440 3438 8445 3438 8452
3443 8460 3445 8459
TIME...MOT...LOC 2316Z 004DEG 3KT 3439 8451
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 28 min |
| May 6, 10:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 30 min |
| May 6, 10:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 23 min |
| May 6, 11:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 26 min |
| May 6, 11:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 46 min |
| May 6, 12:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 48 min |
| May 6, 12:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 37 min |
| May 6, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 32 min |
| May 6, 1:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 50 min |
| May 6, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 52 min |
| May 6, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 40 min |
| May 6, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 28 min |
| May 6, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 26 min |
| May 6, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 34 min |
| May 6, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 31 min |
| May 6, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 28 min |
| May 6, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 26 min |
| May 6, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 52 min |
| May 6, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 32 min |
| May 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 38 min |
| May 6, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 35 min |
| May 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 30 min |
| May 6, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 38 min |
| May 6, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 22 min |
| May 6, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 26 min |
| May 6, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 25 min |
| May 6, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 38 min |
| May 6, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 35 min |
| May 6, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 43 min |
| May 6, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 38 min |
| May 6, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 34 min |
| May 6, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach | 24 min |
| May 6, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 35 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.