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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 9:52 AM EST for Jefferson County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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, 9:52 AM EST (14:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jefferson 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.
381 WUUS52 KFFC 221452 SVRATL GAC163-221545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 952 AM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1045 AM EST * AT 949 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BARTOW... LOUISVILLE...STAPLETON AND WRENS. WEAK SHORT LIVED TORNADOES CAN SOMETIMES DEVELOP ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...THE MAIN THREAT IS DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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 3311 8263 3282 8246 3296 8230 3331 8235 $$
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, 9:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 9:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 29 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.