Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2014, 5:52 PM EDT for Forsyth County, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 3, 2014, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2014, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 6:13 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Se Brookwood, GA | EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTS SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN THE SOUTHERN END OF FORSYTH 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
502 WUUS52 KFFC 032152 SVRFFC GAC117-121-135-032215- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0246.140903T2152Z-140903T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 552 PM EDT WED SEP 3 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA CENTRAL GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 551 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DULUTH THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LAWRENCEVILLE...SUWANEE AND JOHNS CREEK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 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 3409 8392 3391 8392 3392 8426 3411 8425 TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 203DEG 1KT 3400 8413 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 11:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 38 min |
| Sep 2, 11:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 40 min |
| Sep 3, 3:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 11:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 27 more | 16 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 24 min |
| Sep 3, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Sep 3, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 27 min |
| Sep 3, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 37 min |
| Sep 3, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 25 min |
| Sep 3, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Webster | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 23 min |
| Sep 3, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 34 min |
| Sep 3, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 54 min |
| Sep 3, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 24 min |
| Sep 3, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 37 min |
| Sep 3, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 5:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 28 min |
| Sep 3, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Monroe | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson | 38 min |
| Sep 3, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 51 min |
| Sep 3, 7:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Newton, Walton | 39 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.