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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2025, 7:48 AM EST for Montgomery County, Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Feb 16, 2025, 7:48 AM EST (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2025, 8:15 AM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Montgomery County, GA, Toombs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2:02 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 112 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1026 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
906
WUUS52 KFFC 161248
SVRFFC
GAC209-279-161315-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0021.250216T1248Z-250216T1315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
748 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Toombs County in southeastern Georgia...
Montgomery County in central Georgia...
* Until 815 AM EST.
* At 748 AM EST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Normantown to near Ailey to near Spring Hill,
moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Lyons, Mount Vernon, Vidalia, Uvalda, Ailey, Higgston, Santa Claus,
Alston, Center, Toombs Central, Ohoopee, New Branch, Ponderosa,
McNatt Falls, Kibbee, South Thompson, English Eddy, Grays Landing,
Rock Springs, and Cedar Crossing.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.
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.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 AM EST for central,
southeastern and east central Georgia.
&&
LAT...LON 3194 8228 3193 8231 3194 8238 3196 8238
3195 8239 3197 8244 3197 8249 3196 8250
3195 8248 3195 8251 3202 8260 3213 8263
3234 8251 3235 8240 3232 8236 3229 8235
3229 8228 3232 8223 3217 8218 3191 8223
TIME...MOT...LOC 1248Z 269DEG 40KT 3231 8242 3212 8256 3200 8269
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 11:29 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 11:33 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 41 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Walker and 1 more | 48 min |
| Feb 16, 2:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 30 min |
| Feb 16, 2:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon and 4 more | 46 min |
| Feb 16, 3:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Heard, Paulding, Polk | 39 min |
| Feb 16, 3:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer and 6 more | 53 min |
| Feb 16, 3:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 44 min |
| Feb 16, 3:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard and 1 more | 49 min |
| Feb 16, 4:02 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Pike, Troup | 43 min |
| Feb 16, 4:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Lumpkin, Pickens | 34 min |
| Feb 16, 4:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot | 49 min |
| Feb 16, 4:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette and 6 more | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 4:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Spalding, Troup | 35 min |
| Feb 16, 4:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Harris, Henry, Lamar and 6 more | 43 min |
| Feb 16, 4:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 35 min |
| Feb 16, 4:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Clayton, DeKalb, Gwinnett and 9 more | 42 min |
| Feb 16, 4:50 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Jackson, Madison | 25 min |
| Feb 16, 4:52 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Jasper, Morgan, Newton and 2 more | 23 min |
| Feb 16, 5:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Crawford, Harris, Macon, Marion, Muscogee and 8 more | 58 min |
| Feb 16, 5:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Crawford, Henry, Jasper and 8 more | 55 min |
| Feb 16, 5:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 53 min |
| Feb 16, 5:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 38 min |
| Feb 16, 5:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Putnam | 49 min |
| Feb 16, 5:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Clarke, Greene, Hancock, Jackson, Jasper and 9 more | 44 min |
| Feb 16, 5:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 33 min |
| Feb 16, 5:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 39 min |
| Feb 16, 5:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren and 1 more | 52 min |
| Feb 16, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Houston and 9 more | 65 min |
| Feb 16, 5:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Glascock, Hancock, Houston and 10 more | 61 min |
| Feb 16, 6:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 10 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 43 min |
| Feb 16, 6:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery and 4 more | 66 min |
| Feb 16, 6:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs and 3 more | 63 min |
| Feb 16, 7:48 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon | 12 hr |
| Feb 16, 8:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jeff Davis | 30 min |
| Feb 16, 8:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Candler | 14 min |
| Feb 16, 8:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 15 min |
| Feb 16, 11:56 AM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Catoosa, Cherokee and 47 more | 6 hr |
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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.