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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 376, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 22, 2003Bartow County, Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 12:51 PM EDT for Bartow County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 22, 2003, 12:51 PM EDT (16:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2003, 1:15 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bartow County, GA, Polk County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2003-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 491 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2003-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 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.

534 
WUUS52 KFFC 221651
SVRATL
GAC015-233-221715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1250 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT

* AT 1246 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR SHANNON...TO JUST WEST OF
  CEDARTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ADAIRSVILLE...ARAGON...CARTERSVILLE...CEDARTOWN...EMERSON...
EUHARLEE...KINGSTON...ROCKMART...TAYLORSVILLE AND WHITE.

WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

THESE STORMS HAVE HISTORY OF DOWNING TREES.

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 3411 8508 3442 8501 3439 8490 3442 8464
          3408 8465 3408 8491 3390 8502 3390 8541
          3409 8534

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 9:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCNewton113 min
Jul 22, 9:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCMorgan, Walton2 hr
Jul 22, 12:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Walker37 min
Jul 22, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Walker34 min
Jul 22, 12:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Gordon26 min
Jul 22, 1:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton27 min
Jul 22, 1:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth, Gwinnett49 min
Jul 22, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee34 min
Jul 22, 1:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson32 min
Jul 22, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Cobb, Paulding26 min
Jul 22, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas23 min
Jul 22, 1:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Lumpkin52 min
Jul 22, 1:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton35 min
Jul 22, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Hall, Jackson45 min
Jul 22, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale55 min
Jul 22, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTowns, Union, White44 min
Jul 22, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Coweta59 min
Jul 22, 2:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett40 min
Jul 22, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton, Walton59 min
Jul 22, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Clarke, Jackson, Madison56 min
Jul 22, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette54 min
Jul 22, 2:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan31 min
Jul 22, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCOconee50 min
Jul 22, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan48 min
Jul 22, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Oglethorpe56 min
Jul 22, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston51 min
Jul 22, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs51 min
Jul 22, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon48 min
Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris27 min
Jul 22, 4:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCJones118 min
Jul 22, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens31 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.