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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 11, 2003Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2003, 3:47 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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 11, 2003, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2003, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Taylor 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
May 11, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

389 
WUUS52 KFFC 111947
SVRATL
GAC269-112015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
347 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 342 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BUTLER.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND 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 3254 8442 3241 8426 3254 8411 3269 8422

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	38 min
May 11, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	48 min
May 11, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	34 min
May 11, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	22 min
May 11, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee	28 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.