Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Pike County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 26, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2016, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 E Molena, GA | TREE DOWN ON HIGHWAY 109 ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF MOLENA... GEORGIA. |
| Jun 26, 3:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Andrews Crossroads, GA | SEVERAL DOWNED TREES AND POWERLINES ALONG CEDAR ROCK ROAD... BETWEEN HARRIS CITY AND WOODBURY. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
973 WUUS52 KFFC 261930 SVRFFC GAC199-231-293-262015- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0144.160626T1930Z-160626T2015Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 330 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... NORTHWESTERN UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHEASTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 330 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MOLENA...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ZEBULON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GREENVILLE...MANCHESTER...WOODBURY...MOLENA...RALEIGH...CREST AND IMLAC. 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 3311 8445 3295 8437 3286 8463 3305 8471 TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 066DEG 10KT 3301 8450 HAIL...0.88IN WIND...60MPH $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 1:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 1:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Talbot, Taylor | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 29 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.