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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 2016Putnam County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2016, 5:53 PM EDT for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2016, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Putnam County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

135 
WUUS52 KFFC 302153
SVRFFC
GAC237-302230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0157.160630T2153Z-160630T2230Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 552 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EATONTON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 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
  EATONTON...WILLARD...WARFIELD...OCONEE SPRINGS PARK...STANFORDVILLE...
  ROCKVILLE...RESSEAUS CROSSROADS AND PLANT HARLEE BRANCH.

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 3331 8315 3328 8321 3328 8323 3326 8323
      3326 8325 3321 8326 3319 8328 3317 8337
      3318 8339 3318 8346 3317 8355 3325 8354
      3340 8342 3340 8321 3338 8322 3339 8319
      3334 8314
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 234DEG 4KT 3324 8333 

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

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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, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	29 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, 5:57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.