Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 2013, 5:10 PM EDT for Bartow County, Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 min. 5 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 18, 2013, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2013, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 5:25 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cedartown, GA | NUMEROUS REPORTS OF BLOWN DOWN OR SNAPPED TREES WITH POWER OUTAGES IN THE CEDARTOWN AREA. |
| Mar 18, 5:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nnw Seney, GA | SILVER CREEK MINI MART DESTROYED AND 12 HOMES DAMAGED FROM CAVE SPRINGS TO SILVER CREEK. POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
| Mar 18, 5:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Sse Lindale, GA | HOUSE WAS DESTROYED ON CENTER ROAD. |
| Mar 18, 5:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lindale, GA | A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON A HOUSE ON 2ND ST AND TERRACE AVENUE. |
| Mar 18, 5:44 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cave Spring, GA | SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN CAVE SPRING AREA. POWERLINES DOWN ON VEHICLE ON PADLOCK MOUNTAIN ROAD. |
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 18, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
909
WUUS52 KFFC 182110
SVRFFC
GAC015-115-233-182215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0041.130318T2110Z-130318T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
510 PM EDT MON MAR 18 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTHERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 506 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 12 MILES WEST
OF CAVE SPRING...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CEDARTOWN...ARAGON...TAYLORSVILLE...EUHARLEE...KINGSTON...
CASSVILLE...CARTERSVILLE AND EMERSON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. ALTHOUGH
CURRENT DATA DOES NOT INDICATE THE EXISTENCE OF A TORNADO...A TORNADO
MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3427 8466 3408 8466 3408 8492 3402 8495
3400 8541 3401 8542 3420 8545
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 258DEG 35KT 3407 8550
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 11:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens | 48 min |
| Mar 18, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Mar 18, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Murray and 2 more | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 24 min |
| Mar 18, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 44 min |
| Mar 18, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas and 5 more | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Troup | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart, Webster | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and 3 more | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer and 5 more | 52 min |
| Mar 18, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 52 min |
| Mar 18, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Sumter | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 64 min |
| Mar 18, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Meriwether, Monroe, Pike, Upson | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam, Spalding | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Lamar, Monroe | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam | 64 min |
| Mar 18, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Schley, Sumter | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Hancock, Houston, Jefferson and 6 more | 57 min |
| Mar 18, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crawford, Dodge, Houston, Macon, Peach and 3 more | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren, Washington | 59 min |
| Mar 18, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Sumter, Wilcox | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Wilcox | 49 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.