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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 5, 2003Catoosa County, Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2003, 7:14 AM EDT for Catoosa County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 5, 2003, 7:14 AM EDT (11:14 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2003, 7:45 AM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Catoosa County, GA, Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 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 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2003-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 772 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2003-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

113 
WUUS52 KFFC 051114
SVRATL
GAC047-313-051145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
713 AM EDT MON MAY 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 745 AM EDT

* AT 710 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS TO 60 
MPH LOCATED FROM INDIAN SPRINGS TO 13 MILES WEST OF INDIAN 
SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...COHUTTA...
DALTON...INDIAN SPRINGS...RINGGOLD...TUNNEL HILL AND VARNELL.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS
PASS.

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 3509 8510 3487 8528 3469 8489 3497 8480

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 6:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade, Walker37 min
May 5, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.