Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2016, 2:16 PM EDT for Harris County, Meriwether County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 9, 2016, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harris County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Pine Mountain Valley, GA | SERVERAL TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN ALONG D STREET BY THE 911 CENTER. |
| Jul 9, 2:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Sse Manchester, GA | MANY TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN SOUTH OF MANCHESTER NEAR GILBERT 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
131 WUUS52 KFFC 091816 SVRFFC GAC145-199-263-091845- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0188.160709T1816Z-160709T1845Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 216 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTH CENTRAL MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... NORTHWESTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 216 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PINE MOUNTAIN...OR NEAR HAMILTON...MOVING EAST AT 10 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 MANCHESTER...WAVERLY HALL...WARM SPRINGS...F.D. ROOSEVELT STATE PARK AND FLINT HILL. 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 3270 8483 3288 8482 3291 8460 3268 8458 TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 264DEG 10KT 3280 8480 HAIL...0.88IN WIND...60MPH $$
1 follow-up statement
724
WWUS52 KFFC 091832
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
232 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
GAC145-199-091841-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0188.000000T0000Z-160709T1845Z/
HARRIS GA-MERIWETHER GA-
232 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN HARRIS AND SOUTH
CENTRAL MERIWETHER COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3285 8460 3268 8458 3269 8469 3272 8469
3272 8468 3274 8469 3285 8469
TIME...MOT...LOC 1831Z 265DEG 18KT 3281 8462
$$
GAC263-091845-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0188.000000T0000Z-160709T1845Z/
TALBOT GA-
232 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN TALBOT COUNTY...
AT 231 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
MANCHESTER...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TALBOTTON...MOVING EAST 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
MANCHESTER AND FLINT HILL.
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 3285 8460 3268 8458 3269 8469 3272 8469
3272 8468 3274 8469 3285 8469
TIME...MOT...LOC 1831Z 265DEG 18KT 3281 8462
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 8, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Towns, Union | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 8:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 9:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 11:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 11:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 12:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 12:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 12:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 12:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 1:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Union | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 2:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, White | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 3:42 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 39 more | 16 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 1:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington, Wilkinson | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 1:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Talbot | 28 min |
| Jul 9, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 24 min |
| Jul 9, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot, Upson | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Monroe | 28 min |
| Jul 9, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 24 min |
| Jul 9, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Monroe | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Marion, Schley, Taylor | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Monroe | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 24 min |
| Jul 9, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 23 min |
| Jul 9, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 24 min |
| Jul 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 12 min |
| Jul 9, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 3 min |
| Jul 9, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 40 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.