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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 15, 20164 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2016, 8:08 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Feb 15, 2016, 8:08 PM EST (01:08 UTC)
Expired: Feb 15, 2016, 8:45 PM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Harris County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Stewart County, GA

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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
Feb 15, 8:30 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	1 Sw Omaha, GA	TWO TREES DOWN ON HWY 39 ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF OMAHA.
Feb 15, 8:40 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	1 E Cusseta, GA	A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ONTO MILLER RD. CREWS ARE WORKING TO CLEAR THE 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 00:00Z, 1.1 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.

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 418 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 614 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

084 
WUUS52 KFFC 160108
SVRFFC
GAC053-145-215-259-160145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0002.160216T0108Z-160216T0145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
808 PM EST MON FEB 15 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  MUSCOGEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 845 PM EST

* AT 806 PM EST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR
  OPELIKA THROUGH CENTRAL RUSSELL COUNTY TO CLAYTON IN ALABAMA...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 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
  LUMPKIN...HAMILTON...CUSSETA...RICHLAND...WAVERLY HALL...UPATOI...
  FORT BENNING/LAWSON ARMY AIR FLD...BIBB CITY...NORTH FORT
  BENNING...EDGEWOOD...SANFORD...EELBECK/WEST FORT BENNING...
  KENWOOD...MOUNTAIN HILL...BARTLETTS FERRY DAM...FORTSON...ROSE
  HILL...LAKE HARDING...AVONDALE AND BENNING PARK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

INTENSE THUNDERSTORM LINES CAN PRODUCE BRIEF TORNADOES AND WIDESPREAD
SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IT IS BEST TO MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF A BUILDING. THIS STORM MAY CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT
PROPERTY DAMAGE.

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 3192 8491 3195 8496 3198 8496 3199 8507
      3209 8504 3213 8506 3220 8496 3222 8498
      3222 8493 3225 8492 3226 8489 3233 8501
      3243 8496 3252 8501 3264 8511 3268 8511
      3285 8471 3252 8468 3253 8465 3192 8466
TIME...MOT...LOC 0106Z 238DEG 52KT 3198 8520 

HAIL...<.75IN
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
Feb 15, 7:56 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	34 min
Feb 15, 8:09 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	36 min
Feb 15, 8:23 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	37 min
Feb 15, 8:39 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Talbot, Webster	51 min
Feb 15, 8:45 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	30 min
Feb 15, 8:47 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Paulding, Polk	28 min
Feb 15, 8:56 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Schley, Sumter, Taylor, Upson	49 min
Feb 15, 9:10 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	35 min
Feb 15, 9:13 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding	32 min
Feb 15, 9:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Upson	26 min
Feb 15, 9:25 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Macon, Peach	50 min
Feb 15, 9:43 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Spalding	32 min
Feb 15, 9:50 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Monroe	40 min
Feb 15, 10:00 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Newton, Rockdale	30 min
Feb 15, 10:23 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Crisp, Jones, Pulaski, Putnam, Twiggs	37 min
Feb 15, 10:52 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Dodge, Hancock, Johnson, Laurens, Telfair and 4 more	23 min
Feb 15, 11:27 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Taliaferro and 5 more	33 min
Feb 16, 12:12 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler	33 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.