Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 18, 2012, 9:11 PM EST for Decatur County, Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 6 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
- Feb 18, 2012, 9:11 PM EST (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2012, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 9:15 PM EST | TSTM WND GST 49 | 5 Nw Bainbridge, GA | 43 KNOT WIND GUST AT BAINBRIDGE AWOS KBGE. |
| Feb 18, 9:20 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nnw Bethany, GA | TREES BLOWN DOWN ALONG YATES SPRING ROAD. |
| Feb 18, 9:20 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Bainbridge, GA | MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS COUNTY |
| Feb 18, 9:20 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Whigham, GA | MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY |
| Feb 18, 9:23 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Bainbridge, GA | TREES REPORTED DOWN NEAR BLACK JACK RD AND POWER LINES DOWN AROUND BAINBRIDGE. |
| Feb 18, 9:40 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Whigham, GA | MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 8:24 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
488
WUUS52 KTAE 190211
SVRTAE
GAC087-131-190300-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0023.120219T0211Z-120219T0300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
911 PM EST SAT FEB 18 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
GRADY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 1000 PM EST
* AT 908 PM EST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF BAINBRIDGE TO 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAINBRIDGE...AND MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BAINBRIDGE...WHIGHAM AND CAIRO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY!
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
&&
LAT...LON 3107 8412 3097 8412 3092 8408 3087 8407
3067 8409 3072 8485 3101 8464 3108 8437
TIME...MOT...LOC 0210Z 269DEG 49KT 3100 8451 3083 8468
$$
38-GODSEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 7:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Early, Miller | 51 min |
| Feb 18, 8:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Early, Miller | 45 min |
| Feb 18, 8:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 41 min |
| Feb 18, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole | 37 min |
| Feb 18, 9:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Worth | 50 min |
| Feb 18, 9:12 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell | 38 min |
| Feb 18, 9:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Thomas | 51 min |
| Feb 18, 9:44 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Dougherty, Grady and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Seminole | 40 min |
| Feb 18, 9:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth | 48 min |
| Feb 18, 10:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 43 min |
| Feb 18, 10:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 30 min |
| Feb 18, 10:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 14 min |
| Feb 18, 11:47 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Seminole, Thomas | 118 min |
| Feb 19, 11:12 AM EST | River Flood Warning | TAE | Lee | 27 hr |
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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.