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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 3, 2018Early County, Miller County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2018, 3:20 PM EDT for Early County, Miller County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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: Sep 3, 2018, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2018, 3:49 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Early County, GA, Miller County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 3, 3:45 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Ssw Blakely, GA	TREE DOWN ON CEDAR SPRINGS ROAD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1507 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

322 
WUUS52 KTAE 031920
SVRTAE
GAC099-201-032000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0252.180903T1920Z-180903T2000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
320 PM EDT MON SEP 3 2018

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Miller County in southwestern Georgia...
  Early County in southwestern Georgia...

* Until 400 PM EDT.

* At 320 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles south of
  Arlington, or 11 miles north of Colquitt, moving west at 35 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Blakely, Arlington, Columbia, Douglasville, Centerville, Damascus,
  Rock Hill, Colomokee, Cuba, Harmony Church Rd/hwy 45, Early Co A/p,
  Old Damascus, Jeterville, Hentown, Kolomoki Mounds Sp, Hilton,
  Rowena and Sawhatchee.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3150 8503 3149 8503 3149 8498 3146 8479
      3144 8479 3143 8464 3121 8464 3124 8510
      3128 8511 3130 8509 3137 8509 3143 8508
      3143 8507 3147 8507 3150 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 1920Z 098DEG 31KT 3134 8473 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

30-PULLIN

1 follow-up statement

108 
WWUS52 KTAE 031949
SVSTAE

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
349 PM EDT MON SEP 3 2018

GAC099-201-031959-
/O.CAN.KTAE.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-180903T2000Z/
Miller GA-Early GA-
349 PM EDT MON SEP 3 2018

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MILLER AND EARLY
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.  However gusty winds are
still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3150 8503 3149 8503 3149 8498 3146 8479
      3144 8479 3143 8464 3121 8464 3124 8510
      3128 8511 3130 8509 3137 8509 3143 8508
      3143 8507 3147 8507 3150 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 1946Z 098DEG 31KT 3137 8502 

$$

30-PULLIN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 3, 12:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Cook	39 min
Sep 3, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	41 min
Sep 3, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell	48 min
Sep 3, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	43 min
Sep 3, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook	50 min
Sep 3, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Early, Miller	38 min
Sep 3, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell	19 min
Sep 3, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	42 min
Sep 3, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	39 min
Sep 3, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	40 min
Sep 3, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	45 min
Sep 3, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	50 min
Sep 3, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	46 min
Sep 3, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Seminole	30 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.