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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 10:13 PM EDT for Polk 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, 10:13 PM EDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2003, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 260213 SVRATL GAC233-260245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1012 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT * AT 1010 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CEDARTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ARAGON AND CEDARTOWN. 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. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 3407 8540 3391 8538 3394 8506 3409 8507 $$
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, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley, Sumter | 32 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, 10:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 22 min |
Nearby
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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.