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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2003, 8:14 PM EDT for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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 7, 2003, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 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), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 7, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
983 WUUS52 KFFC 080014 SVRATL GAC255-080100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 814 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SPALDING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 811 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF SUNNY SIDE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...EAST GRIFFIN...EXPERIMENT...GRIFFIN AND SUNNY SIDE. 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. 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 3336 8438 3324 8442 3318 8412 3336 8421 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 min |
| May 7, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 55 min |
| May 7, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 61 min |
| May 7, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 3 hr |
| May 7, 10:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 49 min |
| May 7, 11:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 25 min |
| May 7, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 45 min |
| May 7, 11:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 4 hr |
| May 8, 12:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 4 hr |
| May 8, 1:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 3 hr |
| May 8, 3:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 26 min |
| May 8, 3:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 39 min |
| May 8, 3:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 47 min |
| May 8, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Heard | 3 hr |
| May 8, 4:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 2 hr |
| May 8, 4:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 35 min |
| May 8, 4:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 3 hr |
| May 8, 6:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 2 hr |
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.