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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 289, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2003, 4:46 PM EDT for Wilcox 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, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilcox 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 182046
SVRATL
GAC315-182115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
445 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 515 PM EDT
* AT 443 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ROCHELLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ABBEVILLE...
PITTS...PINEVIEW AND ROCHELLE.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.
EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.
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 3185 8341 3194 8358 3211 8349 3212 8336
3207 8331 3200 8329
$$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, 4:16 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, 4:59 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 |
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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.