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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 31, 2016Crawford County, Peach County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2016, 1:45 PM EDT for Crawford County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 31, 2016, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2016, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Crawford County, GA, Peach County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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 31, 2:00 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Roberta, GA	A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON MANOR STREET.
Jul 31, 2:13 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Nne Friendship, GA	A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON MARSHALL MILL RD.

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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

356 
WUUS52 KFFC 311745
SVRFFC
GAC079-225-311815-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0244.160731T1745Z-160731T1815Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
145 PM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  CENTRAL PEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 215 PM EDT

* AT 145 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  REYNOLDS...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF ROBERTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FORT
  VALLEY...ROBERTA...HORNS...KNOXVILLE...NAKOMIS...LEE POPE...SANDY
  POINT 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 3252 8400 3254 8401 3256 8403 3256 8405
      3260 8407 3263 8407 3263 8406 3264 8408
      3268 8411 3268 8412 3280 8392 3256 8377
      3252 8395 3251 8397 3251 8402
TIME...MOT...LOC 1745Z 241DEG 14KT 3259 8407 

HAIL...0.75IN
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
Jul 31, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	31 min
Jul 31, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Taylor	36 min
Jul 31, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Schley	33 min
Jul 31, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	25 min
Jul 31, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Peach	38 min
Jul 31, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	40 min
Jul 31, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	39 min
Jul 31, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Twiggs	52 min
Jul 31, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	45 min
Jul 31, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Muscogee	43 min
Jul 31, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	40 min
Jul 31, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox	41 min
Jul 31, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	42 min
Jul 31, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski, Wilcox	51 min
Jul 31, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	48 min
Jul 31, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	30 min
Jul 31, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	39 min
Jul 31, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	50 min
Jul 31, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	46 min
Jul 31, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	28 min
Jul 31, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	44 min
Jul 31, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	53 min
Jul 31, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	42 min
Jul 31, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	51 min
Jul 31, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Rockdale, Walton	40 min
Jul 31, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe	40 min
Jul 31, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Jackson	39 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.