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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 2, 2016Emanuel County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2016, 5:11 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2016, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Emanuel County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

196 
WUUS52 KFFC 022111
SVRFFC
GAC107-022200-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0073.160602T2111Z-160602T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
511 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 511 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  SUMMERTOWN... OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF SWAINSBORO...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

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

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  SUMMERTOWN...COLEMANS LAKE AND THREE POINTS. 

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 3267 8227 3273 8236 3283 8230 3283 8226
      3281 8225 3281 8223 3280 8221 3282 8215
      3281 8214 3278 8213 3277 8213
TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 209DEG 18KT 3274 8222 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 8:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	30 min
Jun 1, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	26 min
Jun 2, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Floyd, Polk	34 min
Jun 2, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	38 min
Jun 2, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	33 min
Jun 2, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Polk	28 min
Jun 2, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	29 min
Jun 2, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Haralson, Paulding, Polk	24 min
Jun 2, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs, Wheeler	33 min
Jun 2, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	41 min
Jun 2, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	31 min
Jun 2, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	24 min
Jun 2, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	37 min
Jun 2, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	31 min
Jun 2, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	41 min
Jun 2, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	35 min
Jun 2, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	27 min
Jun 2, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	24 min
Jun 2, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	35 min
Jun 2, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	33 min
Jun 2, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	42 min
Jun 2, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson	31 min
Jun 2, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Murray	26 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield	52 min
Jun 2, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	35 min
Jun 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	45 min
Jun 2, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	26 min
Jun 2, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union	30 min
Jun 2, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pike	25 min
Jun 2, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pike	37 min
Jun 2, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	32 min
Jun 2, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	34 min
Jun 2, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones, Monroe	37 min
Jun 2, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	28 min
Jun 2, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	31 min
Jun 2, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Jones	43 min
Jun 2, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Oconee, Walton	11 min
Jun 2, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.