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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 9:42 AM EST for Johnson County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 9:42 AM EST (14:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 10:30 AM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Johnson County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 221442 SVRATL GAC167-221530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 942 AM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1030 AM EST * AT 931 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WRIGHTSVILLE TO 13 MILES WEST OF WRIGHTSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...KITE AND WRIGHTSVILLE. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH 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 3280 8283 3271 8296 3254 8259 3276 8244 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 6:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 7:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 7:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 7:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Oconee | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 7:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 7:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 24 min |
| Feb 22, 7:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 23 min |
| Feb 22, 8:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 8:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 8:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 8:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 8:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 8:48 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 9:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 18 min |
| Feb 22, 9:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 9:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Washington | 22 min |
| Feb 22, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 9:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 9:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 9:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Warren | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 9:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 9:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 9:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 51 min |
| Feb 22, 10:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 10:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 10:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 45 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.