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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 2017, 9:44 PM EDT for Carroll County, Coweta County, Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 5, 2017, 9:44 PM EDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2017, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Carroll County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 9:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Roopville, GA | 2 TREES DOWN IN ROAD AT HWY 27 AND HWY 5. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 723 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
As transmitted.
391 WUUS52 KFFC 060144 SVRFFC GAC045-077-149-060215- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0152.170406T0144Z-170406T0215Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 944 PM EDT WED APR 5 2017 The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southwestern Carroll County in northwestern Georgia... Northern Heard County in west central Georgia... West central Coweta County in west central Georgia... * Until 1015 PM EDT * At 944 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Tyus to Glenn, moving northeast at 70 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Carrollton, Bowdon, Ephesus, Centralhatchee, Roopville, Tyus, Roosterville, Handy, Clem, Frolona, Lowell, Plant Wansley and Blackjack Mountain. 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. && A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT for northwestern and west central Georgia. LAT...LON 3362 8502 3337 8494 3325 8526 3351 8531 TIME...MOT...LOC 0144Z 240DEG 61KT 3347 8523 3317 8521 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 8:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 8:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 8:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 9:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Polk | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:03 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 24 min |
| Apr 5, 9:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 9:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 9:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 9:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wheeler | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Troup | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 10:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 10:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 10:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 10:48 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 24 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:52 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 24 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Marion, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 11:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Hall, Jackson, Madison and 1 more | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 11:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Spalding, Walton | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 11:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Macon, Marion, Schley, Talbot, Taylor and 1 more | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 11:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Walton | 20 min |
| Apr 6, 12:03 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 24 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 50 min |
| Apr 6, 12:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Jones, Twiggs | 52 min |
| Apr 6, 12:24 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 24 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Macon, Peach | 46 min |
| Apr 6, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Houston, Twiggs, Warren and 2 more | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 1:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 3:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 31 min |
| Apr 6, 4:13 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 30 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:23 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Spalding | 24 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 24 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:48 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 41 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:48 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Fayette, Spalding | 38 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:28 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Newton | 24 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:10 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Spalding | 24 hr |
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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.