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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 2, 2003Bartow County, Cherokee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 5:13 PM EDT for Bartow County, Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 62 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: May 2, 2003, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bartow County, GA, Cherokee County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 2, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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.

964 
WUUS52 KFFC 022113
SVRATL
GAC015-057-022215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
511 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 507 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM CANTON TO 6 MILES WEST OF
  ADAIRSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  ADAIRSVILLE...BALL GROUND...CANTON...CARTERSVILLE...HOLLY 
  SPRINGS...KINGSTON...WALESKA AND WHITE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.  
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF QUARTER-SIZED HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THESE 
STORMS AS THEY PASSED THROUGH THE ADAIRSVILLE AREA.

THESE STORMS ALSO CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT UP TO ONE INCH 
OF RAIN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS CAN CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS.

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 3440 8501 3429 8502 3417 8500 3411 8440
          3433 8433 3441 8466

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	29 min
May 1, 8:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	22 min
May 1, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	28 min
May 1, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	29 min
May 1, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow	24 min
May 1, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley	29 min
May 1, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Muscogee	37 min
May 1, 9:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	29 min
May 1, 10:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Pickens	41 min
May 2, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	26 min
May 2, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	35 min
May 2, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	30 min
May 2, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	56 min
May 2, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	35 min
May 2, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	24 min
May 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	30 min
May 2, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	32 min
May 2, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	46 min
May 2, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	45 min
May 2, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	31 min
May 2, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	35 min
May 2, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	31 min
May 2, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	28 min
May 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	24 min
May 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Rockdale, Walton	39 min
May 2, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	22 min
May 2, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	37 min
May 2, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe	47 min
May 2, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Newton	53 min
May 2, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Spalding	55 min
May 2, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	36 min
May 2, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Putnam	43 min
May 2, 7:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	29 min
May 2, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Spalding	39 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.