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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2003, 6:24 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 10, 2003, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Carroll County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 1832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 102224 SVRATL GAC045-077-097-121-102300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 623 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA NORTHERN COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 618 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 13 MILES NORTH OF WHITESBURG TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITESBURG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...EAST NEWNAN...EAST POINT...FAIRBURN...NEWNAN...PALMETTO...SHARPSBURG... UNION CITY AND WHITESBURG. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED PARTS OF 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 3371 8490 3334 8507 3332 8466 3370 8444 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 35 min |
| Jul 10, 2:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 114 min |
| Jul 10, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 31 min |
| Jul 10, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 25 min |
| Jul 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 87 min |
| Jul 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 97 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.