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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 30, 2003Dade County, Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2003, 6:26 PM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

664 
WUUS52 KFFC 302226
SVRATL
GAC083-295-302300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
626 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  WESTERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 623 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WALKER COUNTY...
  MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL CENTRAL
  DADE COUNTY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 3483 8554 3472 8543 3484 8529 3491 8545

$$

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, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	24 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, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	23 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.