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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 2016Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2016, 4:06 PM EDT for Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Talbot County, GA, Upson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 4:12 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Nne Thomaston, GA	TREE FELL ON A HOUSE ON PINE VIEW DRIVE ABOUT 2.5 MILES NORTH OF THOMASTON... GEORGIA.
Jun 26, 4:12 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Hannahs Mill, GA	911 CALL CENTER RECEIVED REPORT OF 1 TREE DOWN ON HANNAHS MILL RD NEAR THE JEFF DAVIS 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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.

960 
WUUS52 KFFC 262006
SVRFFC
GAC263-293-262045-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0147.160626T2006Z-160626T2045Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  NORTH CENTRAL TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 406 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THOMASTON...
  MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 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
  THOMASTON...LINCOLN PARK...THE ROCK...SUNSET VILLAGE...HANNAHS
  MILL... CREST...REDBONE
  CROSSROADS...LOGTOWN...SUNNYSIDE...SPREWELL BLUFF STATE PARK AND
  BIG LAZER CREEK WMA.

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 3292 8452 3299 8425 3284 8415 3276 8447
      3288 8451 3290 8451 3292 8453
TIME...MOT...LOC 2006Z 066DEG 18KT 3292 8429 

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, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster	44 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.