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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 6, 20165 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2016, 9:16 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 6, 2016, 9:16 PM EDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2016, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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
Apr 6, 9:22 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Cedartown, GA	QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN CEDARTOWN...COVERING THE GROUND. SPOTTER SAYS HAIL MADE DENTS IN THE CAR PARKED OUTSIDE.
Apr 6, 9:23 PM EDT	HAIL 1	1 S Cedartown, GA	DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL JUST SOUTH OF CEDARTOWN

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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 418 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

761 
WUUS52 KFFC 070116
SVRFFC
GAC015-115-143-223-233-070200-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0014.160407T0116Z-160407T0200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
916 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  SOUTHWESTERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 915 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CEDARTOWN...
  MOVING EAST 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
  CARTERSVILLE...DALLAS...CEDARTOWN...BUCHANAN...ROCKMART...EUHARLEE...
  HIRAM...TALLAPOOSA...ARAGON...CAVE SPRING...BRASWELL...TAYLORSVILLE...
  YORKVILLE...NEW HOPE...VAN WERT...EUBANK LAKE...SENEY...NEW GEORGIA...
  FISH CREEK AND DRAKETOWN.

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 3408 8538 3424 8483 3379 8473 3378 8484
      3379 8492 3381 8503 3381 8505 3380 8505
      3384 8538
TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 256DEG 35KT 3398 8526 

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

1 follow-up statement

293 
WWUS52 KFFC 070129
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
929 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016

GAC015-115-143-223-233-070200-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0014.000000T0000Z-160407T0200Z/
HARALSON GA-POLK GA-PAULDING GA-FLOYD GA-BARTOW GA-
929 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN HARALSON...POLK...PAULDING...SOUTHEASTERN FLOYD AND
SOUTHWESTERN BARTOW COUNTIES...

AT 928 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ARAGON...OR 8
MILES EAST OF CEDARTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS. 

IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CARTERSVILLE...DALLAS...CEDARTOWN...ROCKMART...EUHARLEE...HIRAM...ARAGON...
BRASWELL...TAYLORSVILLE...YORKVILLE...BROWNSVILLE...NEW HOPE...VAN WERT...
NEW GEORGIA...STILESBORO...SENEY...EUBANK LAKE...BURNT HICKORY RIDGE...
FISH CREEK AND FELTON.

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 3409 8528 3424 8483 3379 8473 3378 8484
      3379 8492 3381 8503 3381 8505 3380 8505
      3388 8529
TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 256DEG 35KT 3401 8510 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 8:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	37 min
Apr 6, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	40 min
Apr 6, 9:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Floyd	50 min
Apr 6, 9:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	39 min
Apr 6, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	48 min
Apr 6, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Paulding, Polk	44 min
Apr 6, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Walker	53 min
Apr 6, 10:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett	44 min
Apr 6, 10:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	45 min
Apr 6, 10:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson, Paulding, Polk	40 min
Apr 6, 10:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens	48 min
Apr 6, 11:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Lumpkin, Pickens	43 min
Apr 6, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton	46 min
Apr 6, 11:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	35 min
Apr 6, 11:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette and 4 more	49 min
Apr 6, 11:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot	39 min
Apr 7, 12:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Troup and 1 more	51 min
Apr 7, 12:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	45 min
Apr 7, 12:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Gwinnett, Henry, Jackson and 6 more	48 min
Apr 7, 12:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding and 1 more	47 min
Apr 7, 12:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	35 min
Apr 7, 1:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Jasper, Madison, Morgan, Oconee and 2 more	42 min
Apr 7, 1:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Schley, Talbot, Taylor	45 min
Apr 7, 1:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Jones	52 min
Apr 7, 1:49 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Marion, Stewart, Webster	27 min
Apr 7, 4:09 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 42 more	16 hr

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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.