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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 439, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT for Sumter County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 16, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Sumter County, GA, Webster County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 801 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 162115 SVRATL GAC261-307-162145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 514 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 504 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PRESTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PLAINS AND PRESTON. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3217 8457 3205 8465 3189 8436 3216 8433 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 27 min |
| Aug 16, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 24 min |
| Aug 16, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro | 26 min |
| Aug 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 24 min |
| Aug 16, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Wilkinson | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Morgan | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 23 min |
| Aug 16, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 16, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 34 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.