Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2016, 5:45 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 45 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, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Harris County, GA, Marion County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 6:01 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sse Geneva, GA | LARGE TREE LIMBS WERE BLOWN ONTO POWER LINES ON HWY 240. |
| Jul 21, 6:05 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Geneva, GA | QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED AT OHANLONS. |
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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.
613
WUUS52 KFFC 212145
SVRFFC
GAC053-145-197-215-263-212230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0239.160721T2145Z-160721T2230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
545 PM EDT THU JUL 21 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHERN MARION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHEASTERN CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
SOUTHWESTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHEASTERN MUSCOGEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 545 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GENEVA...OR 7
MILES SOUTHWEST OF TALBOTTON...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
TALBOTTON...JUNCTION CITY...GENEVA...UPATOI...EELBECK/WEST FORT
BENNING...BAUGHVILLE...OLIVE BRANCH...OAKLAND...MARION ESTATES...BOX
SPRINGS AND JUNIPER.
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 3240 8477 3266 8476 3269 8453 3256 8444
3255 8445 3254 8445 3253 8444 3252 8444
3252 8443 3250 8443 3248 8442 3248 8441
3246 8441 3238 8450
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 346DEG 10KT 3258 8460
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, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens | 41 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, 5:50 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.