Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2017, 1:22 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 38 min. 19 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
- Apr 3, 2017, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Baker County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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 3, 1:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Nw Albany, GA | TWO LARGE PINES DOWN. |
| Apr 3, 1:36 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Baconton, GA | REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN BACONTON |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 N Albany, GA | POWER POLE DOWN ON CAR ON NORTH HARDING ST. |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 N Albany, GA | WIND DAMAGE TO ROOF OF BUILDING OFF OF TEMPLE AVENUE |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 N Albany, GA | TREE DOWN AT 1206 WHISPERING PINES ROAD |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nnw Albany, GA | TREE DOWN ON 12TH AVENUE |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sse Oakland, GA | TREE DOWN ON HOUSE OFF OF STUART |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nnw Albany, GA | TREE DOWN ON A HOUSE ON DONCASTER DRIVE |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nnw Albany, GA | TREE DOWN ON HOME ON DONCASTER |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Albany, GA | SHED FLIPPED OVER IN ALBANY |
| Apr 3, 1:52 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Putney, GA | TREES DOWN IN PUTNEY |
| Apr 3, 2:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Wnw Lester, GA | TREE DOWN ON FRAZIER ROAD |
| Apr 3, 2:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ne East Dougherty, GA | TREES DOWN IN THE WOODCREST AREA |
| Apr 3, 2:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nne East Dougherty, GA | TREES DOWN ALONG MOSSY OAKS ROAD |
| Apr 3, 2:06 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Sylvester, GA | REPORTS OF POWER LINES AND TREES DOWN ACROSS WORTH COUNTY. REPORTS OF TREES DOWN ON HOMES. |
| Apr 3, 2:08 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 W Sylvester Airport, GA | TREES DOWN ALONG FINDLEY ROAD |
| Apr 3, 2:08 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Wnw Sylvester Airport, GA | TREES DOWN ALONG OLD SR50 |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Wnw Sylvester Airport, GA | TREES DOWN IN THE SILVER LAKE CIRCLE AREA |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM EDT | TORNADO | 2 Nnw Doles, GA | VIDEO RELAYED BY WALB SHOWS WEAK TORNADO OVER FARMLAND NEAR DOLES. NO DAMAGE REPORTED. |
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 3, 10:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted.
531
WUUS52 KTAE 031722
SVRTAE
GAC007-095-177-205-273-321-031800-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0113.170403T1722Z-170403T1800Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
122 PM EDT MON APR 3 2017
The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Dougherty County in southwestern Georgia...
Northeastern Mitchell County in southwestern Georgia...
Lee County in southwestern Georgia...
Northeastern Baker County in southwestern Georgia...
Southeastern Terrell County in southwestern Georgia...
Worth County in south central Georgia...
* Until 200 PM EDT
* At 121 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 10 miles southeast of Dawson to 8 miles southwest of
Newton, moving northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Newton, Albany, Sylvester, Leesburg, Putney, Baconton, Poulan, East
Albany, Marine Corps Logistics Base, Turner City, Walker, Warwick,
Stocks, Radium Springs, Sylvester Airport, Parkerville, Lester,
Pritchetts, Crestwood and Pecan City.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3190 8393 3186 8393 3186 8394 3184 8394
3185 8392 3184 8386 3182 8385 3183 8384
3181 8383 3180 8380 3162 8380 3162 8378
3140 8379 3124 8447 3179 8431 3191 8395
3191 8392
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 225DEG 43KT 3164 8436 3126 8446
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
38-GODSEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:06 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt and 17 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 3, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 11:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller, Seminole | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Miller | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Miller, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Tift, Turner, Worth | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Colquitt, Tift | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin, Turner | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes, Thomas | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 37 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.