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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 5, 2003Catoosa County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2003, 2:26 PM EDT for Catoosa 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: May 5, 2003, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Catoosa County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 5, 9:50 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -237 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 333 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.

230 
WUUS52 KFFC 051826
SVRATL
GAC047-051900-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 222 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH
  LOCATED OVER INDIAN SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...INDIAN
SPRINGS AND RINGGOLD.

WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK
DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY
SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED. TAKE COVER NOW

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 3496 8499 3485 8502 3485 8522 3499 8524
          3500 8498 3491 8501

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 6:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	37 min
May 5, 7:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Whitfield	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2003 Every 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.