Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2015, 4:59 PM EDT for Floyd County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 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
- May 28, 2015, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2015, 5:18 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 5:05 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Sugar Valley, GA | MOSTLY DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL BUT FEW UP TO QUARTER SIZE. |
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
586
WUUS52 KFFC 282059
SVRFFC
GAC115-129-282145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0082.150528T2059Z-150528T2145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
459 PM EDT THU MAY 28 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
NORTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT
* AT 458 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RESACA...OR
NEAR CALHOUN...MOVING NORTHWEST 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
CALHOUN...RESACA...LAKE MARVIN...SUGAR VALLEY AND OOSTANAULA.
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 3461 8505 3462 8502 3458 8495 3451 8494
3447 8501 3454 8513 3457 8512 3459 8510
3459 8506 3462 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 145DEG 11KT 3455 8503
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
404
WWUS52 KFFC 282118
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
518 PM EDT THU MAY 28 2015
GAC115-129-282127-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0082.000000T0000Z-150528T2145Z/
GORDON GA-FLOYD GA-
518 PM EDT THU MAY 28 2015
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GORDON AND
NORTHERN FLOYD COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH... SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ACROSS
NORTHWEST GORDON COUNTY AND MOVING NORTH AROUND 15 MPH.
LAT...LON 3461 8505 3462 8502 3458 8495 3451 8494
3447 8501 3454 8513 3457 8512 3459 8510
3459 8506 3462 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 145DEG 11KT 3460 8507
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 25 min |
| May 27, 8:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 37 min |
| May 27, 10:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 32 min |
| May 27, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 25 min |
| May 27, 11:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 30 min |
| May 27, 11:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 29 min |
| May 28, 1:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Rockdale | 25 min |
| May 28, 1:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett, Rockdale | 27 min |
| May 28, 1:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Morgan, Newton, Walton | 32 min |
| May 28, 12:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 50 min |
| May 28, 1:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| May 28, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 65 min |
| May 28, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 57 min |
| May 28, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 28 min |
| May 28, 2:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 23 min |
| May 28, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 53 min |
| May 28, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 65 min |
| May 28, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 59 min |
| May 28, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Hall | 54 min |
| May 28, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 63 min |
| May 28, 4:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 6 hr |
| May 28, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 55 min |
| May 28, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 34 min |
| May 28, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 33 min |
| May 28, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 41 min |
| May 28, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 61 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.