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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 25, 2003Haralson County, Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 10:38 PM EDT for Haralson County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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, 10:38 PM EDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.

222 
WUUS52 KFFC 260238
SVRATL
GAC143-233-260300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1037 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 1035 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL POLK COUNTY...MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL
NORTHERN HARALSON COUNTY AND RURAL SOUTHERN POLK COUNTY.

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 3399 8531 3381 8531 3384 8506 3397 8506

$$

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, 10:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	32 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.