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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 25, 2003Schley County, Sumter County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 9:13 PM EDT for Schley County, Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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: Apr 25, 2003, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Schley County, GA, Sumter County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 25, 6:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 260113
SVRATL
GAC249-261-260145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
912 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SCHLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 909 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF LACROSSE...MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LACROSSE AND 
ANDERSONVILLE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER 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.

LAT...LON 3221 8437 3212 8439 3211 8400 3225 8421

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart, Webster	44 min
Apr 25, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	29 min
Apr 25, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	14 min
Apr 25, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Webster	29 min
Apr 25, 9:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	43 min
Apr 25, 9:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Macon	66 min
Apr 25, 10:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	34 min
Apr 25, 10:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	32 min
Apr 25, 10:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	22 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.