Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 11, 2014, 8:29 AM EST for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 16 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
- Jan 11, 2014, 8:29 AM EST (13:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2014, 8:45 AM EST
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Jackson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 8:35 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ene Chestnut Oak Hill, GA | APPROXIMATELY 10 TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. |
| Jan 11, 8:55 AM EST | TSTM WND GST 64 | 1 Ne Carl, GA | SPOTTER REPORTED A 64MPH GUST WITH TREE LIMBS DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 8:07 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 452 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
838
WUUS52 KFFC 111329
SVRFFC
GAC011-013-135-139-157-111345-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0008.140111T1329Z-140111T1345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
829 AM EST SAT JAN 11 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN BARROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
WEST CENTRAL BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 845 AM EST
* AT 827 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CLERMONT TO FLOWERY BRANCH TO
LILBURN...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LULA...LAWRENCEVILLE...SNELLVILLE...TALMO...BRASELTON...
GILLSVILLE...DACULA...HOSCHTON...PENDERGRASS...GRAYSON...AUBURN AND
CARL.
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. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EST SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3450 8377 3451 8366 3444 8362 3443 8359
3438 8357 3432 8361 3412 8367 3393 8380
3376 8402 3377 8406 3390 8423 3411 8397
3450 8380 3452 8378
TIME...MOT...LOC 1329Z 259DEG 52KT 3447 8370 3413 8386
3391 8413
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 12:07 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Meriwether | 33 min |
| Jan 11, 2:51 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Newton, Spalding | 24 min |
| Jan 11, 3:20 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton | 25 min |
| Jan 11, 6:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Gordon, Walker, Whitfield | 27 min |
| Jan 11, 6:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 36 min |
| Jan 11, 6:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Jan 11, 7:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 27 min |
| Jan 11, 7:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 34 min |
| Jan 11, 7:13 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 32 min |
| Jan 11, 7:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens | 37 min |
| Jan 11, 7:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 31 min |
| Jan 11, 7:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 23 min |
| Jan 11, 7:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 48 min |
| Jan 11, 7:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin, Pickens | 46 min |
| Jan 11, 8:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall | 23 min |
| Jan 11, 8:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 36 min |
| Jan 11, 8:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Troup | 37 min |
| Jan 11, 8:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison | 48 min |
| Jan 11, 8:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and 4 more | 46 min |
| Jan 11, 8:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson and 3 more | 73 min |
| Jan 11, 8:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Meriwether, Newton and 3 more | 40 min |
| Jan 11, 9:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| Jan 11, 9:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Meriwether, Newton, Pike, Spalding | 29 min |
| Jan 11, 9:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:57 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 51 hr |
| Jan 11, 10:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Morgan, Pike, Talbot and 1 more | 29 min |
| Jan 11, 10:03 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 22 hr |
| Jan 11, 10:17 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 24 hr |
| Jan 11, 10:22 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton, Gwinnett | 24 hr |
| Jan 11, 10:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 2 hr |
| Jan 11, 10:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Oglethorpe, Putnam and 3 more | 46 min |
| Jan 11, 10:32 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 24 hr |
| Jan 11, 10:41 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Oconee | 3 days |
| Jan 11, 11:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon, Marion, Peach, Schley, Stewart, Sumter and 2 more | 45 min |
| Jan 11, 11:06 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 24 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:19 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Hancock, Jones, Putnam and 1 more | 26 min |
| Jan 11, 11:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crisp, Dooly, Hancock and 9 more | 47 min |
| Jan 11, 12:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Jan 11, 12:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee and 4 more | 72 min |
| Jan 11, 12:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 32 min |
| Jan 11, 12:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox | 24 min |
| Jan 11, 12:54 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 43 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:00 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Elbert, Madison, Oglethorpe | 22 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:05 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 24 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:21 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 39 min |
| Jan 11, 1:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler | 46 min |
| Jan 11, 2:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 15 min |
| Jan 11, 4:04 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 24 hr |
| Jan 11, 4:27 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 36 hr |
| Jan 11, 5:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 24 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.