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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 442, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 5:42 PM EDT for Lumpkin County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lumpkin County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 162142 SVRATL GAC187-162215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 541 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LUMPKIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 532 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DAHLONEGA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DAHLONEGA. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 3449 8410 3440 8397 3451 8383 3461 8396 $$
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, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.