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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 18, 2003Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2003, 4:16 PM EDT for Wilkinson 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, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2003, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilkinson 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 182016
SVRATL
GAC319-182045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
415 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER IRWINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...IRWINTON...  
  MCINTYRE...GORDON AND TOOMSBORO.

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 3284 8299 3268 8316 3276 8330 3297 8312

$$

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, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	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.