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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 2015Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2015, 3:32 PM EDT for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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 26, 2015, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2015, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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
Jun 26, 3:45 PM EDT	HAIL 0.7	Varnell, GA	AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL NEAR CLEVELAND HWY AND GA 2.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 1434 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

926 
WUUS52 KFFC 261932
SVRFFC
GAC313-262015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0211.150626T1932Z-150626T2015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
332 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 331 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DALTON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

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

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  DALTON...VARNELL...COHUTTA...DAWNVILLE...BEAVERDALE AND RED CLAY
  S.P..

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 3499 8485 3497 8482 3492 8484 3490 8483
      3489 8483 3487 8482 3486 8484 3485 8484
      3484 8486 3482 8486 3478 8495 3483 8501
      3499 8497
TIME...MOT...LOC 1931Z 217DEG 6KT 3483 8496 

HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walker	50 min
Jun 26, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	26 min
Jun 26, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	48 min
Jun 26, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	41 min
Jun 26, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	32 min
Jun 26, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	43 min
Jun 26, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	35 min
Jun 26, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	30 min
Jun 26, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	28 min
Jun 26, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	31 min
Jun 26, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	43 min
Jun 26, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee	24 min
Jun 26, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	35 min
Jun 26, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	33 min
Jun 26, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	29 min
Jun 26, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	25 min
Jun 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	39 min
Jun 26, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	35 min
Jun 26, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	23 min
Jun 26, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Pickens	38 min
Jun 26, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	31 min
Jun 26, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	28 min
Jun 26, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	65 min
Jun 26, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	29 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union	28 min
Jun 26, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	62 min
Jun 26, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	31 min
Jun 26, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union	47 min
Jun 26, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Union	31 min
Jun 26, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	27 min
Jun 26, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	25 min
Jun 26, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	22 min
Jun 26, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns, Union	34 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.