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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2017, 4:48 PM EDT for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 16 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
- Aug 31, 2017, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2017, 5:04 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Toombs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted.
053
WUUS52 KFFC 312048
SVRFFC
GAC279-312130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0321.170831T2048Z-170831T2130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
448 PM EDT THU AUG 31 2017
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Toombs County in southeastern Georgia...
* Until 530 PM EDT
* At 448 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Ponderosa, or
near Lyons, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Lyons, Vidalia, Santa Claus, Ohoopee, New Branch and Ponderosa.
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 3214 8220 3206 8220 3204 8224 3219 8238
3231 8223 3226 8222 3224 8221 3223 8221
3218 8219 3216 8218
TIME...MOT...LOC 2048Z 230DEG 33KT 3218 8225
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
781
WWUS52 KFFC 312104
SVSFFC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
504 PM EDT THU AUG 31 2017
GAC279-312113-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0321.000000T0000Z-170831T2130Z/
Toombs GA-
504 PM EDT THU AUG 31 2017
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TOOMBS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3214 8220 3206 8220 3204 8224 3219 8238
3231 8223 3226 8222 3224 8221 3223 8221
3218 8219 3216 8218
TIME...MOT...LOC 2102Z 230DEG 33KT 3227 8212
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 12:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 24 min |
| Aug 31, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 28 min |
| Aug 31, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Macon, Peach | 50 min |
| Aug 31, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Aug 31, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 46 min |
| Aug 31, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Wilcox | 26 min |
| Aug 31, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 37 min |
| Aug 31, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Washington, Wilcox | 27 min |
| Aug 31, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 37 min |
| Aug 31, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 3:38 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 18 more | 28 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 37 min |
| Aug 31, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 32 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.