Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2017, 4:45 PM EDT for Butts County, Henry County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. 5 reports 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
- May 30, 2017, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2017, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Butts County, GA, Henry County, GA, Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 4:45 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 1 Wsw Pleasant Grove, GA | ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF LANDSOWNE DRIVE AND MCDONOUGH ROAD. |
| May 30, 4:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Wsw Mckibben, GA | TREE AND POWER LINES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 16 TO THE IMMEDIATE EAST OF THE INTERSECTION WITH I-75. |
| May 30, 4:55 PM EDT | HAIL 1.25 | 3 Wsw Mckibben, GA | 1.25 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 16 AND JACKSON ROAD. |
| May 30, 5:07 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ne Mckibben, GA | A TREE WAS REPORTED DOWN ON HIGH FALLS ROAD. |
| May 30, 5:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Se Mckibben, GA | TREE BLOWN DOWN ALONG LEVI BARNES ROAD NEAR HIGH FALLS ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
830
WUUS52 KFFC 302045
SVRFFC
GAC035-151-255-302115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0206.170530T2045Z-170530T2115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
445 PM EDT TUE MAY 30 2017
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Spalding County in west central Georgia...
Southeastern Henry County in north central Georgia...
Central Butts County in central Georgia...
* Until 515 PM EDT
* At 445 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Walker Mill,
or near Griffin, moving east 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.
* Locations impacted include...
Jackson, Locust Grove, Flovilla, Jenkinsburg, East Griffin,
Towalaga, Luella, Walker Mill, McKibben and Indian Springs State
Park.
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 3324 8424 3332 8426 3345 8399 3324 8390
TIME...MOT...LOC 2045Z 264DEG 24KT 3328 8418
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 39 min |
| May 29, 8:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach, Taylor | 60 min |
| May 29, 9:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 55 min |
| May 29, 10:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, Paulding | 60 min |
| May 30, 11:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Floyd | 47 min |
| May 30, 12:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 23 min |
| May 30, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 28 min |
| May 30, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 28 min |
| May 30, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 36 min |
| May 30, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 30 min |
| May 30, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 36 min |
| May 30, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Monroe | 30 min |
| May 30, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 28 min |
| May 30, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 27 min |
| May 30, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 30 min |
| May 30, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.