Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2018, 5:14 PM EDT for Crisp County, Dooly County, Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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
- Mar 19, 2018, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2018, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Sumter County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 5:18 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Leslie, GA | THE EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED 1 INCH HAIL IN LESLIE. |
| Mar 19, 5:20 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Leslie, GA | AT LEAST 1 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE TOWN OF LESLIE. |
| Mar 19, 5:43 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 S Vienna, GA | WMAZ RELAYED A SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL ALONG TIGER ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
405
WUUS52 KFFC 192114
SVRFFC
GAC081-093-261-192145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0006.180319T2114Z-180319T2145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
514 PM EDT MON MAR 19 2018
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Dooly County in central Georgia...
Eastern Sumter County in west central Georgia...
Northwestern Crisp County in central Georgia...
* Until 545 PM EDT
* At 514 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Chokee, or 13
miles north of Leesburg, moving northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Americus, Cordele, Vienna, Byromville, Leslie, Lilly, De Soto,
Desoto, Cobb, Sumter, Lamar, Georgia Veterans Memorial St Pk,
Richwood, New Era, Flint River Wma, Huntington, Pennington,
Drayton, Maddox and Methvins.
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 3188 8393 3191 8392 3192 8433 3219 8407
3217 8403 3220 8402 3222 8398 3220 8386
3198 8373 3187 8393
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 240DEG 49KT 3191 8409
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 12:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 12:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 1:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Sumter | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Macon, Peach | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Pulaski | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Pulaski | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 28 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.