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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2015, 4:04 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2015, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2015, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1550 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
434
WUUS52 KFFC 212004
SVRFFC
GAC167-175-303-319-212030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0151.150621T2004Z-150621T2030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
404 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
SOUTHEASTERN WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTH CENTRAL LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 404 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TOOMSBORO...
OR 10 MILES EAST OF IRWINTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 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
OCONEE AND TUCKERS CROSSROAD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
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 3271 8312 3288 8303 3281 8273 3258 8286
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 292DEG 12KT 3277 8300
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 21, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 2:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 9 min |
| Jun 21, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon, Schley | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee, Pike, Talbot | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 2:49 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge and 25 more | 29 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Taylor, Upson | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Upson | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Talbot | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Macon, Peach, Taylor | 20 min |
| Jun 21, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.