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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 2018, 4:22 PM EDT for Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
- Sep 29, 2018, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2018, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Wilcox County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
397
WUUS52 KFFC 292022
SVRFFC
GAC315-292100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0328.180929T2022Z-180929T2100Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
422 PM EDT SAT SEP 29 2018
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Western Wilcox County in central Georgia...
* Until 500 PM EDT.
* At 421 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Pleasant
View, or 11 miles east of Cordele, moving east at 5 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...
Rochelle, Pineview, Pitts, Pope City, Pleasant View and Seville.
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 3195 8361 3210 8361 3211 8342 3200 8340
3191 8351
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 270DEG 6KT 3201 8358
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 46 min |
| Sep 29, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Wilcox | 61 min |
| Sep 29, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 27 min |
| Sep 29, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 24 min |
| Sep 29, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 37 min |
| Sep 29, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 26 min |
| Sep 29, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 29 min |
| Sep 29, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 37 min |
| Sep 29, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 59 min |
| Sep 29, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 63 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.