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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2016, 7:59 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 22, 2016, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2016, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cherokee County, GA, Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 8:05 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | 1 Se Jasper, GA | EMERGENCY MANAGER RECEIVED REPORT OF NICKEL SIZE HAIL ON HENDERSON MOUNTAIN ROAD OFF OF HIGHWAY 108. DURATION WAS APPROXIMATELY TEN MINUTES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
516
WUUS52 KFFC 222359
SVRFFC
GAC057-227-230030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0028.160422T2359Z-160423T0030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
759 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 759 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TALKING ROCK...
OR NEAR JASPER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
JASPER...BALL GROUND...NELSON...TALKING ROCK...FREE HOME...LATHEMTOWN...
LAKE TAMARACK...HOLBROOK...TALMADGE...TATE...MARBLEHILL...HINTON...BLAINE
AND REAVIS MOUNTAIN.
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 3455 8450 3455 8448 3456 8448 3449 8433
3447 8432 3446 8426 3419 8426 3442 8465
3456 8451
TIME...MOT...LOC 2359Z 302DEG 33KT 3446 8449
HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Murray | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 25 min |
| Apr 22, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 34 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.