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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 2, 2015Murray County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2015, 5:01 PM EDT for Murray County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 2, 2015, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2015, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Murray County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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 2, 5:03 PM EDT	HAIL 1	2 N Spring Place, GA	DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL FELL FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES AT BP GAS STATION. CARS PULLED IN UNDER THE AWNING.

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 158 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: 84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

476 
WUUS52 KFFC 022101
SVRFFC
GAC213-022130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0092.150602T2101Z-150602T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
501 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 501 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  CHATSWORTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 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
  CHATSWORTH AND ETON. 

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 3484 8463 3470 8477 3471 8486 3472 8486
      3473 8487 3473 8486 3475 8486 3476 8487
      3477 8487 3479 8486 3481 8486 3484 8484
TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 188DEG 5KT 3477 8483 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

DJN

1 follow-up statement

231 
WWUS52 KFFC 022123
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
523 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2015

GAC213-022133-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-150602T2130Z/
MURRAY GA-
523 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL MURRAY COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 530 PM EDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING IN CENTRAL MURRAY COUNTY HAS 
WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE 
THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE.  HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE 
WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3484 8463 3470 8477 3471 8486 3472 8486
      3473 8487 3473 8486 3475 8486 3476 8487
      3477 8487 3479 8486 3481 8486 3484 8484
TIME...MOT...LOC 2122Z 188DEG 5KT 3477 8483 

$$

DJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	33 min
Jun 2, 1:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Forsyth	53 min
Jun 2, 2:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin	43 min
Jun 2, 3:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Hall, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White	49 min
Jun 2, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	23 min
Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	34 min
Jun 2, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	33 min
Jun 2, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	31 min
Jun 2, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	38 min
Jun 2, 5:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Murray	3 hr
Jun 2, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	33 min
Jun 2, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	35 min
Jun 2, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	28 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Floyd	32 min
Jun 2, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee	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.