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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 7:19 AM EST for Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 7:19 AM EST (12:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 7:45 AM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
833 WUUS52 KFFC 221219 SVRATL GAC297-221245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 719 AM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WALTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 745 AM EST * AT 715 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF JERSEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BETWEEN... GOOD HOPE...JERSEY...MONROE AND WALNUT GROVE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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 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 3375 8388 3363 8369 3380 8355 3389 8374 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 6:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 7:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 7:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Oconee | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 7:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 7:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 24 min |
| Feb 22, 7:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 23 min |
| Feb 22, 8:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 8:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 8:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 8:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 8:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 8:48 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 9:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 18 min |
| Feb 22, 9:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 9:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Washington | 22 min |
| Feb 22, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 9:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 9:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 9:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Warren | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 9:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 9:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 9:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 9:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 51 min |
| Feb 22, 10:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 10:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 10:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 45 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.