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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2003, 3:51 PM EDT for Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 30, 2003, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2003, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
574
WUUS52 KFFC 301951
SVRATL
GAC129-302015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
351 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
* AT 350 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RANGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...FAIRMOUNT AND
RANGER.
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 3462 8473 3458 8466 3442 8466 3442 8474
3450 8484
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 30, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 25 min |
| Apr 30, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 27 min |
| Apr 30, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 26 min |
| Apr 30, 5:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 116 min |
| Apr 30, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 23 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.