Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2014, 4:59 PM EDT for Banks County, Hall County, Madison County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- May 25, 2014, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2014, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Banks County, GA, Hall County, GA, Madison County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 5:01 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | 3 Wnw Mount Pleasant, 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 896 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 252059
SVRFFC
GAC011-139-195-252130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0046.140525T2059Z-140525T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
459 PM EDT SUN MAY 25 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EXTREME EAST CENTRAL HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 530 PM EDT
* AT 457 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 NEAR HOMER...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ILA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SPOTTERS REPORTED UP TO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AS THIS STORM MOVED
THROUGH ALTO GEORGIA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
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 3441 8337 3433 8339 3425 8333 3427 8330
3425 8327 3425 8321 3423 8316 3409 8332
3412 8336 3416 8336 3426 8348 3426 8354
3434 8365 3449 8350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 310DEG 17KT 3436 8349
$$
30The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 23 min |
| May 25, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union, White | 35 min |
| May 25, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 31 min |
| May 25, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 34 min |
| May 25, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union, White | 35 min |
| May 25, 3:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 28 min |
| May 25, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 23 min |
| May 25, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, White | 32 min |
| May 25, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 23 min |
| May 25, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 35 min |
| May 25, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 29 min |
| May 25, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 35 min |
| May 25, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 24 min |
| May 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 25 min |
| May 25, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton | 32 min |
| May 25, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 44 min |
| May 25, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 42 min |
| May 25, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton | 34 min |
| May 25, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 34 min |
| May 25, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 50 min |
| May 25, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Morgan, Oconee and 1 more | 34 min |
| May 25, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 40 min |
| May 25, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 45 min |
| May 25, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Candler | 12 min |
| May 25, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 48 min |
| May 25, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 32 min |
| May 25, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro | 41 min |
| May 25, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 35 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.