Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 279, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 2016, 2:50 PM EST for Pike County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min. 3 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
- Nov 30, 2016, 2:50 PM EST (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2016, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Pike County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2:53 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Nnw Lawrences Mill, GA | A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON LAWRENCE MILL ROAD. |
| Nov 30, 3:00 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Se Concord, GA | A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON ROBERTS QUARTERS RD. |
| Nov 30, 3:04 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Se Reidsboro, GA | A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON DREW ALLEN 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 12:06 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
048
WUUS52 KFFC 301950
SVRFFC
GAC231-293-302015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0279.161130T1950Z-161130T2015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
250 PM EST WED NOV 30 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHWESTERN UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 315 PM EST
* AT 249 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM ALVATON TO MOLENA TO NEAR MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST
AT 45 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
THOMASTON...ZEBULON...MOLENA...WILLIAMSON...MEANSVILLE...SUNSET
VILLAGE...CREST...LIFSEY SPRINGS...HOLLONVILLE...ATWATER...
SUNNYSIDE...HILLTOP AND HANNAHS MILL.
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 3308 8451 3309 8453 3315 8452 3319 8450
3321 8445 3321 8440 3319 8437 3319 8425
3304 8425 3303 8427 3299 8426 3288 8431
3287 8448 3288 8451 3291 8451 3291 8453
3295 8452 3296 8453 3298 8452 3304 8454
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 254DEG 37KT 3316 8455 3302 8451 3290 8455
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 11:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 33 min |
| Nov 30, 12:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 40 min |
| Nov 30, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 31 min |
| Nov 30, 1:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 1:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 23 min |
| Nov 30, 1:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 18 min |
| Nov 30, 2:05 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 25 min |
| Nov 30, 2:06 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 24 min |
| Nov 30, 3:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 24 min |
| Nov 30, 3:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 43 min |
| Nov 30, 4:49 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 5:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 30 min |
| Nov 30, 5:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 27 min |
| Nov 30, 7:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade | 33 min |
| Nov 30, 7:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 31 min |
| Nov 30, 8:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 39 min |
| Nov 30, 9:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 42 min |
| Nov 30, 10:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 27 min |
| Nov 30, 10:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 38 min |
| Nov 30, 10:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 25 min |
| Nov 30, 11:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 45 min |
| Nov 30, 12:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 15 min |
| Nov 30, 12:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 43 min |
| Nov 30, 12:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 34 min |
| Nov 30, 12:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding | 25 min |
| Nov 30, 1:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 45 min |
| Nov 30, 1:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 37 min |
| Nov 30, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall | 47 min |
| Nov 30, 2:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 28 min |
| Nov 30, 2:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 40 min |
| Nov 30, 2:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 37 min |
| Nov 30, 2:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall | 34 min |
| Nov 30, 2:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall | 18 min |
| Nov 30, 2:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 37 min |
| Nov 30, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson | 47 min |
| Nov 30, 2:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 14 min |
| Nov 30, 2:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 35 min |
| Nov 30, 2:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson | 32 min |
| Nov 30, 3:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 28 min |
| Nov 30, 3:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 3:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Spalding | 20 min |
| Nov 30, 3:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson, Madison | 49 min |
| Nov 30, 3:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton, Walton | 29 min |
| Nov 30, 3:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton | 24 min |
| Nov 30, 3:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Taylor | 46 min |
| Nov 30, 3:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Monroe | 27 min |
| Nov 30, 3:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 3:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton, Putnam | 44 min |
| Nov 30, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 38 min |
| Nov 30, 3:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Jones | 47 min |
| Nov 30, 4:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro | 36 min |
| Nov 30, 4:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Houston | 33 min |
| Nov 30, 4:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 4:39 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley, Webster | 36 min |
| Nov 30, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 27 min |
| Nov 30, 5:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 45 min |
| Nov 30, 5:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Twiggs | 28 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.