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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2016, 3:39 PM EDT for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 25, 2016, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2016, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Sumter County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
708
WUUS52 KFFC 251939
SVRFFC
GAC261-252030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0134.160625T1939Z-160625T2030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
339 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 339 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AMERICUS...
MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT CONSIDERABLE
TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO MOBILE HOMES...
ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
AMERICUS...SUMTER...MADDOX AND CROXTON CROSSROADS.
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 3189 8436 3211 8438 3213 8424 3192 8415
3191 8433 3188 8434 3188 8435
TIME...MOT...LOC 1939Z 344DEG 15KT 3203 8428
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:34 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Crawford, Crisp and 29 more | 18 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 15 min |
| Jun 25, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 21 min |
| Jun 25, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Stewart, Webster | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 23 min |
| Jun 25, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.