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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 21, 2016Baldwin County, Jones County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2016, 3:04 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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: May 21, 2016, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baldwin County, GA, Jones County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 21, 3:15 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Fortville, GA	A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON THE 900 BLOCK OF FORTVILLE MILLEDGEVILLE RD.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 420 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

274 
WUUS52 KFFC 211904
SVRFFC
GAC009-169-211945-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0041.160521T1904Z-160521T1945Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
304 PM EDT SAT MAY 21 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 303 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF GRAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 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
  MILLEDGEVILLE...GRAY...MIDWAY-
  HARDWICK...COOPERS...SCOTTSBORO...JAMES...
  HADDOCK...BLOUNTSVILLE...CLINTON...ALLENWOOD...BRADLEY...WAYSIDE...
  GREENBERRY CROSSROADS...ROUND OAK...BROWNS CROSSING AND PANCRAS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

LARGE 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 3298 8322 3296 8326 3294 8328 3295 8329
      3291 8339 3293 8353 3313 8378 3314 8375
      3317 8356 3305 8319
TIME...MOT...LOC 1903Z 303DEG 28KT 3311 8362 

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

1 follow-up statement

989 
WWUS52 KFFC 211921
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
321 PM EDT SAT MAY 21 2016

GAC009-169-211945-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0041.000000T0000Z-160521T1945Z/
BALDWIN GA-JONES GA-
321 PM EDT SAT MAY 21 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN BALDWIN AND NORTHEASTERN JONES COUNTIES...

AT 320 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GRAY...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 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
MILLEDGEVILLE...GRAY...MIDWAY-
HARDWICK...COOPERS...SCOTTSBORO...JAMES...
HADDOCK...CLINTON...ALLENWOOD...BRADLEY...WAYSIDE...GREENBERRY
CROSSROADS... BROWNS CROSSING AND PANCRAS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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 3298 8322 3296 8326 3294 8328 3295 8329
      3291 8339 3293 8353 3307 8371 3310 8357
      3312 8341 3305 8319
TIME...MOT...LOC 1920Z 303DEG 28KT 3303 8348 

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 12:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	32 min
May 21, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton	32 min
May 21, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper	35 min
May 21, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	23 min
May 21, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	36 min
May 21, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	29 min
May 21, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson	46 min
May 21, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	45 min
May 21, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley	27 min

Nearby

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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.