Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2012, 1:28 PM EST for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 62 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 3, 2012, 1:28 PM EST (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2012, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Thomas County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 1:40 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Sw Moody Afb, GA | TREE DOWN AT 4800 BLOCK LORI STREET. |
| Mar 3, 2:28 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Sw Valdosta, GA | TREE DOWN IN THE ROAD AT 1304 PINEHURST CT. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 7:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:04 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 472 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936 WUUS52 KTAE 031828 SVRTAE GAC019-027-173-185-275-031930- /O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0065.120303T1828Z-120303T1930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 128 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL BERRIEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... LANIER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... NORTHERN LOWNDES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHEASTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... * UNTIL 230 PM EST * AT 125 PM EST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKELAND TO 18 MILES WEST OF QUITMAN. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH WHILE INDIVIDUAL CELLS WITHIN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MOODY AFB...I-75 AT EXIT 16 AND VALDOSTA PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 3071 8348 3073 8389 3115 8297 3093 8297 TIME...MOT...LOC 1826Z 258DEG 19KT 3124 8275 3074 8382 $$ 22-BARRY
1 follow-up statement
237 WWUS52 KTAE 031917 SVSTAE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 217 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 GAC019-027-173-185-275-031930- /O.CON.KTAE.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-120303T1930Z/ THOMAS GA-LOWNDES GA-LANIER GA-BROOKS GA-BERRIEN GA- 217 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM EST FOR EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL BERRIEN...SOUTHERN BROOKS...LANIER... NORTHERN LOWNDES AND SOUTHEASTERN THOMAS COUNTIES... AT 212 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM COURTHOUSE TO GROOVERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO I-75 AT EXIT 16...VALDOSTA...STOCKTON...REMERTON...NAYLOR...KINDERLOU... GREENWOOD AND BLUE SPRINGS PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. && LAT...LON 3071 8348 3073 8389 3115 8297 3093 8297 TIME...MOT...LOC 1917Z 258DEG 19KT 3104 8296 3074 8365 $$ 42-DVD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 8:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Early | 48 min |
| Mar 2, 9:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 9:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Early | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty | 10 min |
| Mar 2, 10:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dougherty | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 11:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lee | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 12:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 12:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Dougherty | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 3:40 AM EST | Flood Watch | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook and 13 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:51 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 3, 7:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Mar 3, 7:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 8:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 8:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 9:13 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 9:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 9:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 10:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 24 min |
| Mar 3, 10:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 10:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 11:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 11:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 11:31 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 11:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 12:04 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Seminole, Thomas | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 12:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 12:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 12:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 1:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Decatur, Grady, Lanier and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 62 min |
| Mar 3, 4:11 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Lowndes | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 83 min |
| Mar 3, 5:38 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt and 16 more | 10 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.