Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2014, 4:41 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 20, 2014, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2014, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Houston County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Twiggs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 5:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cochran, GA | 4 POWER LINES AND AT LEAST ONE TREE DOWN |
| Aug 20, 5:22 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | N Cochran, GA | SEVERAL POWERLINES AND TREES DOWN ACROSS BLECKLEY COUNTY |
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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.
046 WUUS52 KFFC 202041 SVRFFC GAC023-091-153-235-289-202130- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0191.140820T2041Z-140820T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 441 PM EDT WED AUG 20 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA EAST CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA EASTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTH CENTRAL TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 440 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 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF COCHRAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HAWKINSVILLE. 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 3229 8307 3213 8341 3248 8358 3258 8340 TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 326DEG 17KT 3246 8343 $$
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, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Walton | 45 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, 4:42 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.