Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 21, 2017, 6:06 PM EDT for Fannin 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 21, 2017, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2017, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Fannin County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 21, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
254
WUUS52 KFFC 212206
SVRFFC
GAC111-212230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0061.170321T2206Z-170321T2230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
606 PM EDT TUE MAR 21 2017
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Fannin County in north central Georgia...
* Until 630 PM EDT
* At 605 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Cohutta
Wilderness, or 11 miles south of Benton, moving southeast at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles.
* Locations impacted include...
Mineral Bluff, Jones Mill, Higdon, Colwell, Cohutta Wilderness,
Epworth and Copperhill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
This storm is producing large hail. SEEK SHELTER NOW inside a sturdy
structure and stay away from windows!
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 3499 8432 3494 8422 3485 8439 3486 8454
3494 8463 3495 8462 3499 8462
TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 309DEG 19KT 3501 8460
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 50 min |
| Mar 21, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, White | 40 min |
| Mar 21, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 52 min |
| Mar 21, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 37 min |
| Mar 21, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 46 min |
| Mar 21, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 39 min |
| Mar 21, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 33 min |
| Mar 21, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 47 min |
| Mar 21, 5:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Union | 51 min |
| Mar 21, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, White | 47 min |
| Mar 21, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 18 min |
| Mar 21, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 36 min |
| Mar 21, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 49 min |
| Mar 21, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 31 min |
| Mar 21, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Union | 38 min |
| Mar 21, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 46 min |
| Mar 21, 6:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 23 min |
| Mar 21, 6:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union, White | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 6:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 33 min |
| Mar 21, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 32 min |
| Mar 21, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union | 47 min |
| Mar 21, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 44 min |
| Mar 21, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 42 min |
| Mar 21, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 37 min |
| Mar 21, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Madison | 52 min |
| Mar 21, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 49 min |
| Mar 21, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 37 min |
| Mar 21, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 51 min |
| Mar 21, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Walker and 1 more | 49 min |
| Mar 21, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 47 min |
| Mar 21, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 44 min |
| Mar 21, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walton | 43 min |
| Mar 21, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe | 24 min |
| Mar 21, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson, Oconee | 36 min |
| Mar 21, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton | 42 min |
| Mar 21, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 25 min |
| Mar 21, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Murray | 23 min |
| Mar 21, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 34 min |
| Mar 21, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray | 34 min |
| Mar 21, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 45 min |
| Mar 21, 7:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 27 min |
| Mar 21, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon and 3 more | 42 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.