Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 360, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2015, 5:32 PM EDT for Coweta County, Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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
- Sep 3, 2015, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2015, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Coweta County, GA, Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
483
WUUS52 KFFC 032132
SVRFFC
GAC077-199-032200-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0360.150903T2132Z-150903T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
532 PM EDT THU SEP 3 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
SOUTH CENTRAL COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 532 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MORELAND...
OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF NEWNAN...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 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
GRANTVILLE...LUTHERSVILLE...MORELAND...LONE OAK...SAINT MARKS...
WOOSTER AND ROCKY MOUNT.
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 3328 8484 3333 8473 3314 8457 3304 8484
TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 339DEG 7KT 3327 8477
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 1:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 28 min |
| Sep 3, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 25 min |
| Sep 3, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 27 min |
| Sep 3, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 36 min |
| Sep 3, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 25 min |
| Sep 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 28 min |
| Sep 3, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette, Fulton | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 24 min |
| Sep 3, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 29 min |
| Sep 3, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 34 min |
| Sep 3, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 35 min |
| Sep 3, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 23 min |
| Sep 3, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 24 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.