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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2003, 4:01 PM EDT for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 18, 2003, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jones 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 18, 12:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 933 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 182001
SVRATL
GAC169-182030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
401 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 357 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF GRAY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GRAY.
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.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 3295 8337 3317 8343 3314 8367 3288 8364
3285 8350
$$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 17, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 53 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, 4:16 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.