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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 2016Jasper County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2016, 5:16 PM EDT for Jasper County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 30, 2016, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2016, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Jasper County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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 30, 5:30 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ssw Kelly, GA	REPORT OF TREE DOWN ALONG BAR BRIDGE ROAD AND ANOTHER DOWN ON JOHNNY FEARS ROAD.

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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

236 
WUUS52 KFFC 302116
SVRFFC
GAC159-302145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0155.160630T2116Z-160630T2145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
516 PM EDT THU JUN 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 516 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SHADY
  DALE... OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MONTICELLO...SHADY DALE...EUDORA...CALVIN...FARRAR AND
  ADGATEVILLE. 

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 3339 8354 3330 8354 3319 8366 3339 8382
      3349 8362 3343 8353
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 059DEG 5KT 3341 8359 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Walton	35 min
Jun 29, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	27 min
Jun 29, 10:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Oconee, Walton	36 min
Jun 29, 11:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee	45 min
Jun 29, 11:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe	41 min
Jun 30, 12:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jackson	39 min
Jun 30, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	34 min
Jun 30, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart, Webster	47 min
Jun 30, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	30 min
Jun 30, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	28 min
Jun 30, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	49 min
Jun 30, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart, Webster	30 min
Jun 30, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	29 min
Jun 30, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	28 min
Jun 30, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon	34 min
Jun 30, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	26 min
Jun 30, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Rockdale	31 min
Jun 30, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walton	29 min
Jun 30, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	28 min
Jun 30, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Lamar, Monroe	39 min
Jun 30, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	31 min
Jun 30, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee	33 min
Jun 30, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	32 min
Jun 30, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Putnam	30 min
Jun 30, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Putnam	37 min
Jun 30, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	33 min
Jun 30, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Morgan, Oconee	32 min
Jun 30, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Madison	29 min
Jun 30, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	26 min
Jun 30, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin	22 min
Jun 30, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	29 min
Jun 30, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin, White	32 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.