Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2016, 7:41 PM EDT for Morgan County, Oconee County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 8, 2016, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Morgan County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1505 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
279
WUUS52 KFFC 082341
SVRFFC
GAC211-219-297-090015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0180.160708T2341Z-160709T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
741 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN WALTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTH CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
OCONEE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT
* AT 741 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GOOD
HOPE...OR NEAR MONROE...MOVING EAST AT 35 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
MONROE...WATKINSVILLE...NORTH HIGH SHOALS...BOSTWICK...GOOD
HOPE... BISHOP...GRATIS...PANNELL...BARNETT SHOALS...FARMINGTON
AND EASTVILLE.
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 3390 8339 3389 8337 3387 8336 3387 8332
3386 8333 3385 8330 3373 8331 3370 8340
3369 8340 3374 8372 3391 8371 3391 8370
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 275DEG 25KT 3383 8360
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 13 min |
| Jul 8, 3:25 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge and 31 more | 17 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Oglethorpe | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2016Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016
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.