Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2014, 6:35 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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
- May 25, 2014, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2014, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Emanuel County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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, 6:37 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Canoochee, GA | |
| May 25, 6:50 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Garfield, GA | REPORTED BY THE ATTENDANT AT THE J AND W DASH N GO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS52 KFFC 252235
SVRFFC
GAC107-252315-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0052.140525T2235Z-140525T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
635 PM EDT SUN MAY 25 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 631 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GARFIELD...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TWIN
CITY.
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. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.
&&
LAT...LON 3254 8203 3255 8208 3251 8215 3242 8219
3242 8220 3267 8226 3270 8209 3266 8208
3263 8202 3259 8200
TIME...MOT...LOC 2235Z 341DEG 16KT 3271 8217
$$The 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, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Madison | 31 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, 6:45 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 |
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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.