Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 6, 2014, 7:56 PM EDT for Catoosa County, Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 6, 2014, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2014, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 7:59 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Ringgold, GA | QUARTER SIZED HAIL FELL ON LIVE OAK RD IN RINGGOLD. |
| Oct 6, 8:05 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Ringgold, GA |
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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
983
WUUS52 KFFC 062356
SVRFFC
GAC047-213-313-070030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0259.141006T2356Z-141007T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
756 PM EDT MON OCT 6 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTH CENTRAL MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTHERN WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 754 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
RINGGOLD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
TUNNEL HILL...VARNELL AND COHUTTA.
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 3484 8470 3477 8516 3477 8520 3485 8520
3485 8526 3488 8527 3499 8526 3499 8525
3499 8473
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 246DEG 26KT 3490 8511
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 10:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade | 35 min |
| Oct 6, 11:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 29 min |
| Oct 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 30 min |
| Oct 6, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 27 min |
| Oct 6, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 49 min |
| Oct 6, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade, Walker | 50 min |
| Oct 6, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 42 min |
Nearby
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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.