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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 17, 2003Emanuel County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2003, 2:24 PM EDT for Emanuel County, 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 17, 2003, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Emanuel County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 1136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 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.

773 
WUUS52 KFFC 171824
SVRATL
GAC107-171900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
224 PM EDT THU JUL 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 213 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF NUNEZ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...NUNEZ.

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

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.

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.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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 3253 8254 3237 8228 3249 8217 3262 8248

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 8:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Pickens	2 hr
Jul 17, 6:17 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	88 min
Jul 17, 8:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Stewart	86 min
Jul 17, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Treutlen	36 min
Jul 17, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	29 min
Jul 17, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery	36 min
Jul 17, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	26 min
Jul 17, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wheeler	32 min
Jul 17, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Peach	27 min
Jul 17, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	34 min
Jul 17, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	28 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.