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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 1:40 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 22, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
538 WUUS52 KFFC 221740 SVRATL GAC121-221815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 139 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 137 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH APPROACHING FULTON COUNTY FROM THE WEST...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALPHARETTA... ATLANTA...EAST POINT...ROSWELL AND SANDY SPRINGS. WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED. TAKE COVER NOW EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. 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 3368 8458 3358 8446 3408 8423 3413 8433 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 9:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Newton | 113 min |
| Jul 22, 9:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Morgan, Walton | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 12:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 12:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Polk | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Paulding | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union, White | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 59 min |
| Jul 22, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 59 min |
| Jul 22, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Clarke, Jackson, Madison | 56 min |
| Jul 22, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 50 min |
| Jul 22, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe | 56 min |
| Jul 22, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 4:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jones | 118 min |
| Jul 22, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 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.