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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Atlanta, GA

October 9, 2014Banks County, Jackson County, Madison County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 9, 2014, 5:20 PM EDT for Banks County, Jackson County, Madison County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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: Oct 9, 2014, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired: Oct 9, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Banks County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Madison County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

028 
WUUS52 KFFC 092120
SVRFFC
GAC011-157-195-092200-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0264.141009T2120Z-141009T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
520 PM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
  JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
  WESTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 517 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
  PENDERGRASS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MAYSVILLE...JEFFERSON...ARCADE...COMMERCE...NICHOLSON AND ILA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED 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 OR TWEET US YOUR REPORT AT NWSATLANTA.

&&

LAT...LON 3425 8333 3427 8330 3426 8328 3403 8329
      3410 8371 3423 8369 3428 8364 3429 8335
TIME...MOT...LOC 2120Z 277DEG 13KT 3418 8359

$$

1 follow-up statement

403 
WWUS52 KFFC 092154
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
554 PM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

GAC011-157-195-092204-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0264.000000T0000Z-141009T2200Z/
MADISON GA-BANKS GA-JACKSON GA-
554 PM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR JACKSON...SOUTHERN BANKS AND
WESTERN MADISON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM EDT...

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 3425 8333 3427 8330 3426 8328 3403 8329
      3410 8371 3423 8369 3428 8364 3429 8335
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 277DEG 13KT 3416 8344

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 8, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	31 min
Oct 9, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin	47 min
Oct 9, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Jackson	38 min
Oct 9, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	33 min
Oct 9, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	26 min
Oct 9, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding	39 min
Oct 9, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	28 min
Oct 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	52 min
Oct 9, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	33 min
Oct 9, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	42 min
Oct 9, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	38 min
Oct 9, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	51 min
Oct 9, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	64 min
Oct 9, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield	52 min
Oct 9, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	50 min
Oct 9, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	49 min
Oct 9, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	47 min
Oct 9, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth, Hall	44 min
Oct 9, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jackson	45 min
Oct 9, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White	58 min
Oct 9, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.