Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 7:12 PM EDT for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 17, 2016, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Telfair County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 N Workmore, GA | THE TELFAIR COUNTY 911 CENTER REPORTED SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 2581 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
373
WUUS52 KFFC 172312
SVRFFC
GAC271-172345-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0124.160617T2312Z-160617T2345Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
712 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
* AT 712 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JACKSONVILLE...
OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF MCRAE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 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
LUMBER CITY...JACKSONVILLE...WORKMORE...CHINA HILL...HORSE CREEK WMA
AND TEMPERANCE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
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 3178 8303 3181 8309 3181 8312 3183 8315
3188 8319 3202 8302 3194 8268 3192 8265
3192 8268 3190 8269 3186 8276 3186 8278
3185 8279 3184 8279 3178 8289 3179 8290
3178 8292 3179 8298 3178 8299
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 302DEG 34KT 3189 8298
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 29 min |
| Jun 17, 12:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 36 min |
| Jun 17, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 1:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Floyd, Paulding, Polk | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 26 min |
| Jun 17, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Rockdale | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 18 min |
| Jun 17, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 28 min |
| Jun 17, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Putnam | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Polk | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 23 min |
| Jun 17, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 28 min |
| Jun 17, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Washington | 29 min |
| Jun 17, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 25 min |
| Jun 17, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 37 min |
| Jun 17, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Jun 17, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor, Upson | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Houston, Peach | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 36 min |
| Jun 17, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs | 28 min |
| Jun 17, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 36 min |
| Jun 17, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox | 40 min |
| Jun 17, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wheeler | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 30 min |
| Jun 17, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 68 min |
| Jun 17, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Macon, Pulaski, Wilcox | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 26 min |
| Jun 17, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon, Pulaski | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 46 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.