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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 387, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 22, 2003Towns County, Union County, White County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 2:01 PM EDT for Towns County, Union County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, White County, GA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 221801 RRA
SVRATL
GAC281-291-311-221845-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
  WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 158 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH        
  MOVING IN FROM THE WEST...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
BLAIRSVILLE...HELEN...HIAWASSEE AND YOUNG HARRIS.

WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED 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 3497 8424 3469 8397 3456 8365 3499 8371

$$

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, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	35 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	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

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.