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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2003, 8:20 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 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, 8:20 PM EDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.
450 WUUS52 KFFC 080020 SVRATL GAC199-080115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 819 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 816 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LONE OAK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GAY... GREENVILLE...LONE OAK AND LUTHERSVILLE. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. 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. 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 3322 8482 3301 8486 3300 8454 3321 8450 $$
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, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 46 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.