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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 2, 2003Spalding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 8:52 PM EDT for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 8:52 PM EDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Spalding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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 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, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 27 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: 2666 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.3

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The text

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

481 
WUUS52 KFFC 030052
SVRATL
GAC255-030130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SPALDING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 849 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXPERIMENT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...EAST
GRIFFIN...EXPERIMENT AND GRIFFIN.

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 3333 8420 3329 8441 3319 8427 3318 8411

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren	43 min
May 2, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Paulding	33 min
May 2, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jasper, Putnam	44 min
May 2, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Fulton, Heard	27 min
May 2, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	34 min
May 2, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry	33 min
May 2, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock	41 min
May 2, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton	23 min
May 2, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	47 min
May 2, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	30 min
May 2, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	43 min
May 2, 8:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	26 min
May 2, 8:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	41 min
May 2, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	37 min
May 2, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Washington	46 min
May 2, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Upson	36 min
May 2, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Monroe	51 min
May 2, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Johnson, Laurens, Wilkinson	45 min
May 2, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	67 min
May 2, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Monroe, Taylor	27 min
May 2, 9:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones	36 min
May 2, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	33 min
May 2, 9:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	28 min
May 2, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Peach	23 min
May 2, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson	31 min
May 2, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee	27 min
May 2, 10:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski	25 min
May 2, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley	31 min
May 2, 10:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens	30 min
May 2, 10:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski	37 min
May 2, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart, Sumter, Webster	30 min
May 2, 10:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	29 min
May 2, 10:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler	39 min
May 2, 11:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	40 min
May 2, 11:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	32 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.