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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 2003Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2003, 4:17 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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 30, 2003, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Laurens County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 246 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1196 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 302017
SVRATL
GAC175-302100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
417 PM EDT MON JUN 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 413 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DEXTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DEXTER...
DUBLIN...EAST DUBLIN AND RENTZ.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

THIS STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN
LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS CAN CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS.

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 3246 8314 3233 8299 3258 8266 3274 8285

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	40 min
Jun 30, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	33 min
Jun 30, 3:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton	2 hr
Jun 30, 5:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas	58 min
Jun 30, 7:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Harris	66 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.