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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2021, 5:41 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 17, 2021, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2021, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Marion County, GA, Schley County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
794
WUUS52 KFFC 172141
SVRFFC
GAC197-249-261-307-172215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0006.210317T2141Z-210317T2215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
541 PM EDT Wed Mar 17 2021
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Marion County in west central Georgia...
Webster County in west central Georgia...
Schley County in west central Georgia...
Northwestern Sumter County in west central Georgia...
* Until 615 PM EDT.
* At 540 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Preston,
moving northeast at 30 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...
Buena Vista, Ellaville, Preston, Putnam, Seminole, Murrays
Crossroads, Draneville, Friendship, Tazewell, Doyle, Church Hill,
Centerpoint, Dumas and Walls Crossing.
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 3202 8466 3203 8465 3203 8464 3214 8464
3241 8446 3236 8427 3233 8425 3230 8426
3230 8424 3227 8422 3223 8422 3223 8420
3195 8452
TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 224DEG 25KT 3209 8455
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
840
WWUS52 KFFC 172158
SVSFFC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
558 PM EDT Wed Mar 17 2021
GAC197-249-261-307-172215-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0006.000000T0000Z-210317T2215Z/
Marion GA-Webster GA-Schley GA-Sumter GA-
558 PM EDT Wed Mar 17 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MARION...EAST CENTRAL WEBSTER...SCHLEY AND
NORTHWESTERN SUMTER COUNTIES...
At 558 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Friendship, or
9 miles southwest of Ellaville, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Ellaville, Putnam, Murrays Crossroads, Friendship, Doyle, Dumas and
Walls Crossing.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3207 8453 3233 8443 3236 8427 3233 8425
3230 8426 3230 8424 3227 8422 3223 8422
3223 8420 3200 8446
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 224DEG 25KT 3218 8445
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 9:47 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 5 days |
| Mar 17, 2:22 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:36 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 4 days |
| Mar 17, 3:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 62 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 30 min |
| Mar 17, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley, Webster | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 5:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Fannin and 8 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Macon, Schley, Sumter | 38 min |
| Mar 17, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 28 min |
| Mar 17, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.