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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 363, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 19, 2003Putnam County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2003, 4:42 PM EDT for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 19, 2003, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Putnam County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 1399 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 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.

558 
WUUS52 KFFC 192042
SVRATL
GAC237-192115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
441 PM EDT SAT JUL 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PUTNAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 435 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF EATONTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 
MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM 
INCLUDE...WILLARD...EATONTON AND RURAL SOUTHWEST PUTNAM COUNTY.

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 3336 8343 3331 8355 3321 8346 3329 8334

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	32 min
Jul 19, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Washington	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.