Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2014, 3:45 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. 4 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
- Aug 20, 2014, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2014, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jasper County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Walton County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 3:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Good Hope, GA | SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN GOOD HOPE |
| Aug 20, 4:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nne Alcovy, GA | A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN ALONG HD ATHA ROAD. |
| Aug 20, 4:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Madison, GA | NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ESPECIALLY IN AND WEST OF MADISON |
| Aug 20, 4:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Godfrey, GA | NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN |
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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS52 KFFC 201945
SVRFFC
GAC159-211-217-219-297-202030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0187.140820T1945Z-140820T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
345 PM EDT WED AUG 20 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
EAST CENTRAL NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHEASTERN WALTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
CENTRAL OCONEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 344 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
BOSTWICK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
RUTLEDGE...NEWBORN...MADISON...BUCKHEAD AND SHADY DALE.
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 OR TWEET US YOUR REPORT AT NWSATLANTA.
&&
LAT...LON 3348 8330 3344 8352 3340 8353 3339 8365
3375 8381 3386 8349 3371 8339 3370 8340
3365 8336 3360 8335 3353 8328 3349 8328
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 330DEG 22KT 3371 8358
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 1:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 30 min |
| Aug 20, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin | 40 min |
| Aug 20, 2:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 35 min |
| Aug 20, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 25 min |
| Aug 20, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Upson | 48 min |
| Aug 20, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| Aug 20, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 26 min |
| Aug 20, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb, Paulding | 52 min |
| Aug 20, 3:24 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 30 more | 29 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Fulton, Henry | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Peach, Taylor | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 24 min |
| Aug 20, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Houston | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 48 min |
| Aug 20, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 31 min |
| Aug 20, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 25 min |
| Aug 20, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 37 min |
| Aug 20, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 48 min |
| Aug 20, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 50 min |
| Aug 20, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Muscogee, Taylor | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 20, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fulton | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Laurens, Pulaski and 1 more | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Union | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 41 min |
| Aug 20, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 40 min |
| Aug 20, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade, Walker | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 53 min |
| Aug 20, 6:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Union | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 26 min |
| Aug 20, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 20 min |
| Aug 20, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens | 40 min |
| Aug 20, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Aug 20, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 28 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.