Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2017, 11:31 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 44 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
- Jan 2, 2017, 11:31 PM EST (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2017, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 11:35 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Ene Milan, GA | A HOUSE WAS REPORTED WITH ROOF SHINGLES BLOWN OFF. THERE WAS ALSO A FARM SHED THAT COLLAPSED IN THE STORM. |
| Jan 2, 11:35 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Ene Milan, GA | AT THE INTERSECTION OF EL BETHEL CHURCH ROAD AND HIGHWAY 280... A HOUSE WAS REPORTED WITH ROOF SHINGLES BLOWN OFF. THERE WAS ALSO A FARM SHED THAT COLLAPSED IN THE STORM. |
| Jan 2, 11:40 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Mcrae, GA | IN THE SOUTH CORNER OF WHATLEY VINEYARD... 20 TO 25 TREES WERE UPROOTED AND A FEW WERE SNAPPED. |
| Jan 2, 11:40 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Mcrae, GA | MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES WERE DOWN NEAR THE CROSSING OF HIGHWAY 341 AND WHATLEY FARM ROAD. EVENT TIME WAS ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
| Jan 3, 12:03 AM EST | TSTM WND GST 55 | 2 Ne Mcrae, GA | RAWS SITE REPORTED 55 MPH WIND GUST AT LITTLE OCMULGEE STATE PARK |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 10:27 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted.
692
WUUS52 KFFC 030431
SVRFFC
GAC091-175-271-309-030515-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0007.170103T0431Z-170103T0515Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
1131 PM EST MON JAN 2 2017
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
East central Dodge County in central Georgia...
Wheeler County in central Georgia...
North central Telfair County in central Georgia...
Southeastern Laurens County in central Georgia...
* Until 1215 AM EST
* At 1131 PM EST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Chauncey, or
9 miles southeast of Eastman, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
McRae, Alamo, Helena, Glenwood, Scotland, Chauncey, Achord, Little
Ocmulgee State Park, Cedar Grove, Landsburg and Jay Bird Springs.
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 300 AM EST for central
Georgia.
LAT...LON 3218 8315 3219 8315 3231 8296 3230 8272
3208 8262 3196 8298
TIME...MOT...LOC 0431Z 233DEG 49KT 3208 8311
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 7:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 30 min |
| Jan 2, 7:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 64 min |
| Jan 2, 7:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot, Taylor | 16 min |
| Jan 2, 7:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 6 hr |
| Jan 2, 8:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Taylor | 26 min |
| Jan 2, 9:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Monroe | 28 min |
| Jan 2, 10:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 39 min |
| Jan 2, 11:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski, Telfair, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Jan 2, 11:57 PM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 47 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 45 min |
| Jan 3, 12:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Laurens, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler | 45 min |
| Jan 3, 12:36 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 24 hr |
| Jan 3, 12:36 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 6 days |
| Jan 3, 4:06 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 72 hr |
| Jan 3, 4:06 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 30 hr |
| Jan 3, 6:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach | 40 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:28 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs | 48 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:50 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta, 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.