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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 16, 2003Clayton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2003, 9:47 PM EDT for Clayton County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 16, 2003, 9:47 PM EDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clayton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 1038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

545 
WUUS52 KFFC 170147
SVRATL
GAC063-170215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
945 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 934 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN JONESBORO AND IRONDALE...DRIFTING
  SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BONANZA...
  IRONDALE...JONESBORO AND LOVEJOY.

THE PUBLIC REPORTED GOLF BALL-SIZED HAIL IN JONESBORO WITH THIS 
STORM AT 940 PM EDT.

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 3360 8428 3353 8440 3339 8434 3345 8428

$$

RAB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 10:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	36 min
Jun 16, 11:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	23 min
Jun 16, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Gordon	40 min
Jun 17, 2:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett	3 hr
Jun 17, 4:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fayette	114 min
Jun 17, 5:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	2 hr
Jun 17, 6:47 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	2 hr
Jun 17, 7:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	98 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.