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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2014, 8:28 PM EDT for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- May 18, 2014, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2014, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Toombs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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.
796
WUUS52 KFFC 190028
SVRFFC
GAC279-190100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0040.140519T0028Z-140519T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
828 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN TOOMBS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT
* AT 823 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES WEST
OF ROCK SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CEDAR
CROSSING...GRAYS LANDING AND ENGLISH EDDY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 3193 8228 3193 8234 3194 8238 3195 8239
3195 8240 3196 8244 3196 8248 3208 8247
3214 8245 3192 8223 3191 8224
TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 313DEG 21KT 3203 8256
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 23 min |
| May 18, 8:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 63 min |
| May 18, 8:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Ben Hill | 36 min |
| May 18, 11:24 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 55 more | 11 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.