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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 283, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2003, 11:52 PM EDT for Chattooga 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
- May 17, 2003, 11:52 PM EDT (03:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2003, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chattooga County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
974 WUUS52 KFFC 180352 SVRATL GAC055-180445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1151 PM EDT SAT MAY 17 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1245 AM EDT * AT 1150 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF SUMMERVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LYERLY... MENLO...SUMMERVILLE AND TRION. 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 3423 8551 3419 8541 3459 8521 3458 8553 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 28 min |
| May 18, 3:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 2 hr |
| May 18, 4:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 3 hr |
| May 18, 5:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 32 min |
| May 18, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 29 min |
| May 18, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 29 min |
| May 18, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 27 min |
| May 18, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens | 35 min |
| May 18, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 29 min |
| May 18, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 31 min |
| May 18, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 26 min |
| May 18, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.