Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2022

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 6, 2022Coffee County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2022, 3:03 PM EDT for Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2022, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2022, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Coffee County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 6, 12:57 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 6, 1:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 1:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 2:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
200 PM EDT Fri May 6 2022

GAZ132-061845-
Coffee GA-
200 PM EDT Fri May 6 2022

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Coffee
County through 245 PM EDT...

At 200 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Enigma, or 10 miles east of Tifton, moving east at 40 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Broxton, Ambrose and Pridgen.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3147 8314 3147 8312 3151 8308 3156 8306
      3161 8306 3163 8303 3163 8301 3166 8301
      3166 8300 3178 8300 3179 8298 3178 8292
      3142 8286 3142 8314 3144 8314 3146 8315
TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 249DEG 34KT 3147 8334

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

NELSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 3:55 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		41 hr
May 6, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Hamilton	51 min
May 6, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton, Suwannee	32 min
May 6, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton	47 min
May 6, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee	26 min
May 6, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Suwannee	37 min
May 6, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia	36 min
May 6, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton	34 min
May 6, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Coffee	45 min
May 6, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	41 min
May 6, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	21 min
May 6, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Jeff Davis	25 min
May 6, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson	38 min
May 6, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson	26 min
May 6, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch, Echols	66 min
May 6, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2022 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2022

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.