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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 365, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2003, 5:52 PM EDT for Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 21, 2003, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dade County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1467 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 212152
SVRATL
GAC083-212215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
549 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 443 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN JACKSON COUNTY ALABAMA...JUST
NORTHWEST OF DADE COUNTY FROM 17 MILES NORTH OF TRENTON TO 24
MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE TRENTON AND
RISING FAWN.
THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS WELL AHEAD OF THE RAIN AREA. WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH MILES MAY
OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...UP TO 15 MILES AHEAD OF THE
HEAVY RAIN AREA.
GO TO A SAFE PLACE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS
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 3488 8543 3467 8548 3463 8553 3467 8556
3481 8558 3491 8561 3499 8561 3500 8533
$$
RABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 18 min |
| Jul 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 21 min |
| Jul 21, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 32 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.