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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 441, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 16, 2003Washington County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 5:31 PM EDT for Washington 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: Aug 16, 2003, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Washington County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 162131
SVRATL
GAC303-162215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
531 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 527 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SANDERSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DAVISBORO...
HARRISON...RIDDLEVILLE...SANDERSVILLE AND TENNILLE.

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

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. 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 3308 8282 3294 8297 3271 8268 3297 8253

$$

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, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter, Webster	30 min
Aug 16, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart	23 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.