Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 14, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 793 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
288
WUUS52 KFFC 142115
SVRFFC
GAC317-142145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0088.160614T2115Z-160614T2145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
515 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT
* AT 515 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR RAYLE TO SHARON...MOVING NORTHEAST 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
WASHINGTON...TIGNALL...HOLLIDAY PARK...LUNDBERG...JACKSONS
CROSSROADS... DELHI...NEWTOWN...METASVILLE...AONIA...FLORAL
HILL...MALLORYSVILLE... ROCKY CREEK FIRE DEPT....NORMAN...DANBURG
AND FICKLIN.
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 THESE STORMS. 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 3366 8251 3364 8256 3365 8258 3363 8258
3363 8262 3362 8262 3361 8264 3360 8265
3360 8269 3362 8269 3361 8275 3365 8282
3390 8285 3398 8275 3398 8265 3386 8261
3387 8257 3383 8260 3380 8258 3364 8248
TIME...MOT...LOC 2115Z 214DEG 24KT 3383 8285 3356 8279
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 10:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 10:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 10:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 12:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 12:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 25 min |
| Jun 14, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 12:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 1:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 1:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 1:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Monroe | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 2:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Monroe | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 28 min |
| Jun 14, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Newton | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 24 min |
| Jun 14, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Rockdale | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison | 28 min |
| Jun 14, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 28 min |
| Jun 14, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 25 min |
| Jun 14, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 24 min |
| Jun 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 19 min |
| Jun 14, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 30 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.