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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2003, 5:19 PM EDT for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 182119 SVRATL GAC303-182145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 516 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THREE-QUARTERS INCH DIAMETER LOCATED OVER OCONEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DAVISBORO...OCONEE...SANDERSVILLE AND TENNILLE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. 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 3286 8302 3275 8294 3294 8257 3310 8276 $$
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, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 29 min |
| May 18, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 31 min |
| May 18, 5:27 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.