Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Aug 18, 2016, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)

Expired

Aug 18, 2016, 4:15 PM EDT

In force

39 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Storm-based polygon

Hail

1.0 in

Wind

60.0 mph

Counties Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WUUS52 KFFC 181936
SVRFFC
GAC091-175-182015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0257.160818T1936Z-160818T2015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
336 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHWESTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 336 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  PLAINFIELD... OR 8 MILES NORTH OF EASTMAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST 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
  EASTMAN...CHESTER...CADWELL...CHAUNCEY...CEDAR GROVE...JAY BIRD
  SPRINGS AND PLAINFIELD.

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 3231 8327 3242 8314 3227 8283 3207 8306
TIME...MOT...LOC 1936Z 299DEG 12KT 3231 8312 

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

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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.