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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 2, 2016Jasper County, Jones County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2016, 7:47 PM EDT for Jasper County, Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2016, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

320 
WUUS52 KFFC 022347
SVRFFC
GAC159-169-030030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0074.160602T2347Z-160603T0030Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 746 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  MONTICELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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
  WAYSIDE...HILLSBORO...ROUND OAK...ADGATEVILLE AND BLOUNTSVILLE. 

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 3313 8346 3302 8369 3314 8381 3329 8366
      3320 8354 3317 8355 3317 8352
TIME...MOT...LOC 2346Z 223DEG 28KT 3313 8371 

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, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	49 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, 7:49 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.