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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2016, 3:33 PM EDT for Harris County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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 31, 2016, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2016, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harris County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
025
WUUS52 KFFC 311933
SVRFFC
GAC145-263-312015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0247.160731T1933Z-160731T2015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
333 PM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
WESTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
* AT 332 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WAVERLY HALL...
OR 9 MILES EAST OF HAMILTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 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
TALBOTTON...MANCHESTER...WAVERLY HALL...WOODLAND...BAUGHVILLE...OLIVE
BRANCH...PLEASANT HILL AND FLINT HILL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
SMALL HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
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 3286 8479 3286 8473 3284 8470 3285 8457
3285 8446 3283 8446 3256 8460 3269 8482
TIME...MOT...LOC 1932Z 306DEG 11KT 3275 8471
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$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, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 30 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, 3:54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.