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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 16, 2003Gilmer County, Pickens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2003, 4:59 PM EDT for Gilmer County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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 16, 2003, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gilmer County, GA, Pickens County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 1129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 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.

993 
WUUS52 KFFC 162059
SVRATL
GAC123-227-162145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
458 PM EDT WED JUL 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 456 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TALKING ROCK...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...JASPER AND
TALKING ROCK.

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

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 3465 8432 3464 8464 3444 8464 3443 8427

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 3:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	115 min
Jul 16, 4:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	2 hr
Jul 16, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson	27 min
Jul 16, 5:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Pickens	3 hr
Jul 16, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	35 min
Jul 16, 6:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gordon	3 hr
Jul 16, 6:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	3 hr
Jul 16, 6:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	118 min
Jul 16, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Walton	23 min
Jul 16, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Walton	31 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.