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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 8, 2015Dade County, Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2015, 6:08 PM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Jun 8, 2015, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2015, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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
Jun 8, 6:43 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Hinkles, GA	911 CENTER REPORTED ONE TREE DOWN ON A HOUSE NEAR LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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.

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: 126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

270 
WUUS52 KFFC 082208
SVRFFC
GAC083-295-082245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0105.150608T2208Z-150608T2245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
608 PM EDT MON JUN 8 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 607 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  BRIDGEPORT...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  TRENTON...FORT OGLETHORPE...CHICKAMAUGA...LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN...
  CHATTANOOGA VALLEY...CHATTANOOGA  VALLEY...CLOUDLAND CANYON STATE
  PARK...NEW ENGLAND...COLE CITY...MORGANVILLE...WILDWOOD...HOOKER...
  FAIRVIEW...STEPHENSVILLE AND LAKEVIEW.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

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 3498 8526 3488 8526 3486 8527 3479 8557
      3498 8560
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 258DEG 42KT 3492 8569 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	10 min
Jun 8, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	30 min
Jun 8, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	35 min
Jun 8, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	36 min
Jun 8, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	39 min
Jun 8, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	41 min
Jun 8, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Monroe	33 min
Jun 8, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Dade, Walker	45 min
Jun 8, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	49 min
Jun 8, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Warren	32 min
Jun 8, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	31 min
Jun 8, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield	28 min
Jun 8, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	26 min
Jun 8, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Murray, Whitfield	31 min
Jun 8, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	30 min
Jun 8, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	27 min
Jun 8, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	40 min
Jun 8, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	50 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.