Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2016, 4:34 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 41 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 21, 2016, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Murray County, GA, Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
480
WUUS52 KFFC 212034
SVRFFC
GAC123-129-213-227-212115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0233.160721T2034Z-160721T2115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
434 PM EDT THU JUL 21 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
SOUTHEASTERN MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
SOUTHWESTERN GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHWESTERN PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 515 PM EDT
* AT 434 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHATSWORTH...
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 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
CHATSWORTH...TAILS CREEK...RAMHURST...TALONA...FORT MOUNTAIN STATE
PARK...CARTERS...ROUNDTOP AND OAKMAN.
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 3453 8444 3451 8459 3451 8477 3480 8478
3483 8461
TIME...MOT...LOC 2034Z 343DEG 10KT 3474 8469
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 9:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 10:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 26 min |
| Jul 20, 10:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 56 min |
| Jul 20, 10:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 11:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 23 min |
| Jul 20, 11:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 32 min |
| Jul 21, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 42 min |
| Jul 21, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 42 min |
| Jul 21, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens, Union | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 43 min |
| Jul 21, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 28 min |
| Jul 21, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 54 min |
| Jul 21, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth, Pickens | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 42 min |
| Jul 21, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding, Polk | 52 min |
| Jul 21, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 49 min |
| Jul 21, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry, Spalding | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 58 min |
| Jul 21, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 25 min |
| Jul 21, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson, Oconee, Walton | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 28 min |
| Jul 21, 6:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 52 min |
| Jul 21, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 27 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.