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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2016, 6:40 PM EDT for Sumter County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Mar 17, 2016, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2016, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Sumter County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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, 10.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
913
WUUS52 KFFC 172240
SVRFFC
GAC261-307-172315-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0010.160317T2240Z-160317T2315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
640 PM EDT THU MAR 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
SOUTHEASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 639 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DAWSON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 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
AMERICUS...PLAINS...LESLIE...DE SOTO...SUMTER...CROXTON CROSSROADS...
MADDOX...HUNTINGTON AND CENTERPOINT.
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 3197 8444 3193 8444 3192 8446 3192 8453
3197 8456 3213 8427 3191 8402 3192 8434
3187 8434
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 233DEG 21KT 3187 8444
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 30 min |
| Mar 17, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 31 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.