Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2015, 8:41 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 31, 2015, 8:41 PM EDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2015, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 9:25 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Plainfield, GA | A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN IN PLAINFIELD. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
587 WUUS52 KFFC 010041 SVRFFC GAC023-091-175-010130- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0013.150401T0041Z-150401T0130Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 841 PM EDT TUE MAR 31 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHWESTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA... NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 841 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COCHRAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO COCHRAN...CHESTER...CADWELL...RENTZ...DUBOIS...BAILEYS PARK... EMPIRE...RODDY...GRESSTON...YONKERS...PLAINFIELD AND ROWLAND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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 3232 8338 3245 8333 3239 8285 3214 8297 TIME...MOT...LOC 0041Z 286DEG 28KT 3237 8330 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 8:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 8:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 8:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 8:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Pulaski | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 9:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 9:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 10:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 10:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 11:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 35 min |
| Apr 1, 12:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 51 min |
| Apr 1, 12:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe | 48 min |
| Apr 1, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 1:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson | 29 min |
| Apr 1, 2:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 30 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.