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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 20164 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2016, 4:01 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 44 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 26, 2016, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Marion County, GA, Schley County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Webster County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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 26, 4:15 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Ellaville, GA	911 CALL CENTER RECEIVED REPORTS OF 1 TREE DOWN ON CONCORD CHURCH RD...1 TREE DOWN ON OLD HWY 19 S...AND SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 153 AND DOSIER RD INTERSECTION

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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted.

758 
WUUS52 KFFC 262001
SVRFFC
GAC197-249-261-307-262045-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0146.160626T2001Z-160626T2045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
401 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SCHLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN MARION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  NORTHWESTERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 401 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF
  ELLAVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 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
  AMERICUS...ELLAVILLE...PLAINS...PUTNAM...FRIENDSHIP...CHURCH
  HILL... BUMPHEAD...WALLS CROSSING...DRANEVILLE AND LA CROSSE.

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 3192 8439 3219 8459 3234 8433 3224 8422
      3223 8422 3223 8421 3218 8415
TIME...MOT...LOC 2001Z 038DEG 14KT 3214 8433 

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, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Upson	45 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, 4:06 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.