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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 2016Crisp County, Wilcox County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2016, 6:08 PM EDT for Crisp County, Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2016, 6:31 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Crisp County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

712 
WUUS52 KFFC 252208
SVRFFC
GAC081-315-252245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0139.160625T2208Z-160625T2245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
608 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHWESTERN WILCOX COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 605 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PITTS...OR
  11 MILES EAST OF CORDELE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 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
  ROCHELLE...ARABI...PITTS...HATLEY...DOUBLE RUN AND SEVILLE. 

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 3201 8361 3192 8342 3185 8346 3185 8361
      3180 8361 3180 8379
TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 029DEG 15KT 3191 8359 

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

1 follow-up statement

647 
WWUS52 KFFC 252231
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
631 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016

GAC081-315-252240-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0139.000000T0000Z-160625T2245Z/
CRISP GA-WILCOX GA-
631 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN CRISP AND
SOUTHWESTERN WILCOX 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.

LAT...LON 3201 8361 3192 8342 3185 8346 3185 8361
      3180 8361 3180 8379
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 029DEG 15KT 3182 8365 

$$

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, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	51 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, 6:12 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

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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.