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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 2016, 8:51 PM EST for DeKalb County, Henry County, Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 1, 2016, 8:51 PM EST (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2016, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Henry County, GA, Rockdale County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
980
WUUS52 KFFC 020151
SVRFFC
GAC089-151-247-020215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0008.160302T0151Z-160302T0215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
851 PM EST TUE MAR 1 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTH CENTRAL HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
SOUTHEASTERN DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 915 PM EST
* AT 850 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LITHONIA...OR
NEAR CONYERS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CONYERS...LITHONIA...LAKEVIEW ESTATES...GEORGIA INTERNATIONAL HORSE
PARK...MILSTEAD...RICHARDSON PARK...BIG HAYNES CREEK PARK...ARABIA
MOUNTAIN...REDAN...MAGNET AND KELLEYTOWN.
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 3376 8413 3377 8405 3375 8402 3377 8400
3377 8396 3374 8391 3372 8392 3371 8391
3371 8393 3369 8392 3365 8393 3353 8404
3354 8420
TIME...MOT...LOC 0150Z 271DEG 37KT 3366 8412
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
041
WWUS52 KFFC 020206
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
906 PM EST TUE MAR 1 2016
GAC089-151-247-020215-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160302T0215Z/
ROCKDALE GA-HENRY GA-DEKALB GA-
906 PM EST TUE MAR 1 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ROCKDALE...NORTH CENTRAL HENRY
AND SOUTHEASTERN DEKALB COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 915 PM EST...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST FOR
NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA.
LAT...LON 3376 8413 3377 8405 3375 8402 3377 8400
3377 8396 3374 8391 3372 8392 3371 8391
3371 8393 3369 8392 3365 8393 3353 8404
3354 8420
TIME...MOT...LOC 0204Z 271DEG 37KT 3366 8412
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:13 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 7:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 7:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton, Heard | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 8:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 8:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Fayette, Harris, Henry, Lamar, Meriwether and 4 more | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 9:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 9:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Harris, Henry, Lamar, Meriwether, Monroe and 5 more | 43 min |
| Mar 1, 9:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Jasper, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and 1 more | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 10:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Butts, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Monroe and 1 more | 43 min |
| Mar 1, 10:42 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Twiggs | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.