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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 11, 2014Bartow County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 11, 2014, 7:03 AM EST for Bartow County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 11, 2014, 7:03 AM EST (12:03 UTC)
Expired: Jan 11, 2014, 7:30 AM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bartow County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:02 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 214 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 452 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 501 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

091 
WUUS52 KFFC 111203
SVRFFC
GAC015-111230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0002.140111T1203Z-140111T1230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
703 AM EST SAT JAN 11 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 730 AM EST

* AT 658 AM EST...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 9 MILES WEST
  OF TAYLORSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  EUHARLEE...KINGSTON...CARTERSVILLE...CASSVILLE AND WHITE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED WEAK 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3422 8503 3424 8503 3441 8470 3441 8465
      3435 8465 3435 8464 3435 8466 3418 8466
      3408 8488 3409 8504 3421 8505
TIME...MOT...LOC 1203Z 239DEG 53KT 3410 8507

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 11, 12:07 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 29 more	7 hr
Jan 11, 1:57 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Meriwether	33 min
Jan 11, 2:51 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Newton, Spalding	24 min
Jan 11, 3:20 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton	25 min
Jan 11, 6:18 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Gordon, Walker, Whitfield	27 min
Jan 11, 6:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Haralson, Polk	36 min
Jan 11, 6:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens, Whitfield	32 min
Jan 11, 7:11 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer	34 min
Jan 11, 7:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson, Paulding, Polk	32 min
Jan 11, 7:23 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens	37 min
Jan 11, 7:29 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	31 min
Jan 11, 7:37 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Paulding	23 min
Jan 11, 7:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding	48 min
Jan 11, 7:44 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin, Pickens	46 min
Jan 11, 8:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall	23 min
Jan 11, 8:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Heard	36 min
Jan 11, 8:23 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Troup	37 min
Jan 11, 8:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson	16 min
Jan 11, 8:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison	48 min
Jan 11, 8:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and 4 more	46 min
Jan 11, 8:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson and 3 more	73 min
Jan 11, 8:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Meriwether, Newton and 3 more	40 min
Jan 11, 9:12 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	6 hr
Jan 11, 9:29 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth and 9 more	2 hr
Jan 11, 9:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe	30 min
Jan 11, 9:31 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Meriwether, Newton, Pike, Spalding	29 min
Jan 11, 9:42 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette and 7 more	2 hr
Jan 11, 9:57 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	51 hr
Jan 11, 10:01 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Morgan, Pike, Talbot and 1 more	29 min
Jan 11, 10:03 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	22 hr
Jan 11, 10:17 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	24 hr
Jan 11, 10:22 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton, Gwinnett	24 hr
Jan 11, 10:26 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	2 hr
Jan 11, 10:29 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Oglethorpe, Putnam and 3 more	46 min
Jan 11, 10:32 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	24 hr
Jan 11, 10:41 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Oconee	3 days
Jan 11, 11:00 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Marion, Peach, Schley, Stewart, Sumter and 2 more	45 min
Jan 11, 11:06 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	24 hr
Jan 11, 11:19 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Hancock, Jones, Putnam and 1 more	26 min
Jan 11, 11:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crisp, Dooly, Hancock and 9 more	47 min
Jan 11, 12:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	37 min
Jan 11, 12:18 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee and 4 more	72 min
Jan 11, 12:43 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Washington	32 min
Jan 11, 12:51 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox	24 min
Jan 11, 12:54 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Heard	43 hr
Jan 11, 1:00 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Elbert, Madison, Oglethorpe	22 hr
Jan 11, 1:05 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett, Walton	24 hr
Jan 11, 1:21 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler	39 min
Jan 11, 1:59 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler	46 min
Jan 11, 2:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	15 min
Jan 11, 4:04 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Rockdale	24 hr
Jan 11, 4:27 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Whitfield	36 hr
Jan 11, 5:51 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Morgan, Newton	24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.