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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 415, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 4, 2003Banks County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2003, 9:13 PM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 4, 2003, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2003, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Banks County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 4, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 2177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

102 
WUUS52 KFFC 050113
SVRATL
GAC011-050145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
913 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 908 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOMER...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HOMER.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

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 3451 8345 3436 8360 3418 8332 3436 8316

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	24 min
Aug 4, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	29 min
Aug 4, 9:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb	28 min
Aug 4, 9:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall, Jackson	36 min
Aug 4, 10:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall, Jackson, Madison	42 min
Aug 4, 10:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Banks	2 hr

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.