Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2016, 2:18 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. 3 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
- Jul 6, 2016, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:27 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nnw Liberty, GA | SEVERAL REPORTS OF TREES DOWN ACROSS SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY. WALKER CHURCH ROAD NEAR ARMOUR BRIDGE ROAD...AND LEACH ROAD NEAR LIBERTY CHURCH ROAD. |
| Jul 6, 2:32 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Wnw Shoulderbone, GA | GDOT REPORTED TREE DOWN ACROSS SR 16 BLOCKING E AND W LANES...NEAR GREEN SPRINGS ROAD. |
| Jul 6, 2:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ne Devereux, GA | GDOT REPORTING TREE DOWN ACROSS SR 22 NEAR MILE POST 12 BLOCKING WEST BOUND TRAFFIC. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1847 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
141 WUUS52 KFFC 061818 SVRFFC GAC133-141-237-265-061900- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0167.160706T1818Z-160706T1900Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 218 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHWESTERN TALIAFERRO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA... NORTHEASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA... * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 218 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PHOENIX...OR NEAR EATONTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EATONTON...SPARTA...WHITE PLAINS...REYNOLDS PLANTATION...PHOENIX... LIBERTY...SPRINGFIELD...OCONEE SPRINGS PARK...SHOULDERBONE AND ROCKVILLE. 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 3321 8292 3327 8336 3344 8339 3351 8296 TIME...MOT...LOC 1818Z 264DEG 26KT 3336 8331 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 11:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 11:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 11:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 12:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 12:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 12:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 1:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette, Henry, Pike, Spalding | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor, Upson | 10 min |
| Jul 6, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 2:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Peach, Schley, Taylor | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 22 min |
| Jul 6, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Sumter | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 3:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot, Taylor | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 17 min |
| Jul 6, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Murray | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 10 min |
| Jul 6, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 66 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.