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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 238, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 21, 2016Houston County, Peach County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2016, 5:35 PM EDT for Houston County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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 21, 2016, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2016, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Houston County, GA, Peach County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 21, 5:35 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG1 Nne Redding, GAA POWER LINE WAS DOWNED ON ROBINS PARKWAY JUST SOUTH OF SEVENTH STREET.
Jul 21, 5:43 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGSleepy Hollow, GAA LARGE TREE WAS BLOWN ONTO A HOME IN THE WOODBRIDGE SUBDIVISION.

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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2016-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1259 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2016-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

As transmitted.

935 
WUUS52 KFFC 212135
SVRFFC
GAC153-225-212215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0238.160721T2135Z-160721T2215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
535 PM EDT THU JUL 21 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 535 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  CENTERVILLE... OR 8 MILES NORTH OF PERRY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15
  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
  PERRY...FORT VALLEY...WARNER ROBINS...CENTERVILLE...BYRON...ROBINS
  AIR FORCE BASE...BONAIRE...LAKEWOOD...HOUSTON
  LAKE...CLINCHFIELD...KATHLEEN... POWERVILLE...SAND BED AND MIAMI
  VALLEY.

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 3267 8368 3260 8356 3236 8363 3256 8394
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 052DEG 12KT 3258 8368 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 9:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTaliaferro30 min
Jul 20, 9:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDeKalb32 min
Jul 20, 10:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDeKalb26 min
Jul 20, 10:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTaliaferro56 min
Jul 20, 10:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCTaliaferro, Wilkes6 hr
Jul 20, 11:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkes23 min
Jul 20, 11:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkes32 min
Jul 21, 1:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCoweta31 min
Jul 21, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Coweta, Heard42 min
Jul 21, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach31 min
Jul 21, 2:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLumpkin, White42 min
Jul 21, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkes34 min
Jul 21, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens, Union39 min
Jul 21, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Douglas, Fulton39 min
Jul 21, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes43 min
Jul 21, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkes41 min
Jul 21, 3:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDouglas28 min
Jul 21, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDawson54 min
Jul 21, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Forsyth, Pickens51 min
Jul 21, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow35 min
Jul 21, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaliaferro, Warren, Wilkes46 min
Jul 21, 3:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGwinnett31 min
Jul 21, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett, Walton42 min
Jul 21, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke36 min
Jul 21, 4:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCForsyth24 min
Jul 21, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow34 min
Jul 21, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett47 min
Jul 21, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens41 min
Jul 21, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Paulding, Polk52 min
Jul 21, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton49 min
Jul 21, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee47 min
Jul 21, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Henry, Spalding41 min
Jul 21, 5:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCNewton, Rockdale26 min
Jul 21, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb, Twiggs35 min
Jul 21, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDodge33 min
Jul 21, 5:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCStewart31 min
Jul 21, 5:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFloyd27 min
Jul 21, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley24 min
Jul 21, 5:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett58 min
Jul 21, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry24 min
Jul 21, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot45 min
Jul 21, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTwiggs25 min
Jul 21, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan, Newton, Walton40 min
Jul 21, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Jackson, Oconee, Walton47 min
Jul 21, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee34 min
Jul 21, 6:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPulaski31 min
Jul 21, 6:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLaurens36 min
Jul 21, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMontgomery, Treutlen34 min
Jul 21, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMarion, Schley, Taylor28 min
Jul 21, 6:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb52 min
Jul 21, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper, Jones45 min
Jul 21, 7:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJohnson27 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.