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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 30, 2016Troup County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 2016, 2:02 PM EST for Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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
Nov 30, 2016, 2:02 PM EST (19:02 UTC)
Expired
Nov 30, 2016, 2:30 PM EST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Troup County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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
Nov 30, 2:05 PM ESTTSTM WND DMG1 Nnw Indian Bend, GAA TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON LOVIC DAVIS RD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Nov 30, 12:06 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 2016-11-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 64 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 2016-11-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 278 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted.

096 
WUUS52 KFFC 301902
SVRFFC
GAC285-301930-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0274.161130T1902Z-161130T1930Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
202 PM EST WED NOV 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 230 PM EST

* AT 202 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM NEAR ABBOTTSFORD TO NEAR LONG CANE TO NEAR WEST
  POINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

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

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LAGRANGE...WEST POINT...HOGANSVILLE...HARRISONVILLE...BAUGHS
  CROSSROADS...BIG SPRINGS...HILLCREST...MOUNTVILLE...ABBOTTSFORD...
  WARES CROSSROADS...LOUISE...PIEDMONT HEIGHTS...CANNONVILLE...SMITHS
  CROSSROAD AND LONG CANE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

INTENSE THUNDERSTORM LINES CAN PRODUCE BRIEF TORNADOES AND WIDESPREAD
SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IT IS BEST TO MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF A BUILDING. THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT
PROPERTY DAMAGE.

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.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR WEST CENTRAL
GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3318 8509 3317 8509 3318 8505 3319 8503
      3322 8494 3322 8486 3290 8486 3287 8514
      3287 8518 3312 8523
TIME...MOT...LOC 1902Z 244DEG 45KT 3309 8519 3299 8515 3290 8515 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 29, 11:57 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade33 min
Nov 30, 12:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade40 min
Nov 30, 1:14 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade, Walker31 min
Nov 30, 1:18 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCDade, Walker26 min
Nov 30, 1:37 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa, Walker23 min
Nov 30, 1:53 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCCatoosa18 min
Nov 30, 2:05 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWhitfield25 min
Nov 30, 2:06 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade24 min
Nov 30, 3:36 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade24 min
Nov 30, 3:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa, Dade, Walker43 min
Nov 30, 4:49 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade26 min
Nov 30, 5:15 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade30 min
Nov 30, 5:48 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade27 min
Nov 30, 7:27 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCatoosa, Dade33 min
Nov 30, 7:59 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCatoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield31 min
Nov 30, 8:36 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMurray, Whitfield39 min
Nov 30, 9:18 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattooga, Walker42 min
Nov 30, 10:18 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMurray, Whitfield27 min
Nov 30, 10:37 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattooga38 min
Nov 30, 10:50 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Floyd25 min
Nov 30, 11:15 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMurray, Whitfield45 min
Nov 30, 12:00 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMurray15 min
Nov 30, 12:17 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFannin, Gilmer43 min
Nov 30, 12:26 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll, Haralson34 min
Nov 30, 12:52 PM ESTTornado Warning Tornado observedFFCCarroll, Haralson, Paulding25 min
Nov 30, 1:04 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDouglas, Fulton26 min
Nov 30, 1:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding45 min
Nov 30, 1:38 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCCobb, DeKalb, Fulton37 min
Nov 30, 1:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall47 min
Nov 30, 2:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris40 min
Nov 30, 2:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett37 min
Nov 30, 2:11 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCForsyth, Gwinnett, Hall34 min
Nov 30, 2:14 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCForsyth, Gwinnett, Hall18 min
Nov 30, 2:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether37 min
Nov 30, 2:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson47 min
Nov 30, 2:32 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether14 min
Nov 30, 2:40 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMuscogee35 min
Nov 30, 2:43 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCBarrow, Clarke, Jackson32 min
Nov 30, 2:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPike, Upson25 min
Nov 30, 3:02 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTalbot, Upson28 min
Nov 30, 3:04 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Stewart26 min
Nov 30, 3:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Spalding20 min
Nov 30, 3:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson, Madison49 min
Nov 30, 3:16 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCNewton, Walton29 min
Nov 30, 3:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Henry, Jasper, Newton24 min
Nov 30, 3:29 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Marion, Taylor46 min
Nov 30, 3:33 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMonroe27 min
Nov 30, 3:34 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Oconee26 min
Nov 30, 3:46 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJasper, Morgan, Newton, Putnam44 min
Nov 30, 3:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMadison, Oglethorpe38 min
Nov 30, 3:58 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb, Crawford, Jones47 min
Nov 30, 4:24 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBaldwin, Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro36 min
Nov 30, 4:27 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley, Houston33 min
Nov 30, 4:34 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDooly26 min
Nov 30, 4:39 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCSchley, Webster36 min
Nov 30, 4:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock, Warren27 min
Nov 30, 5:00 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGlascock45 min
Nov 30, 5:47 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley, Twiggs28 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.