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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 19, 2003Bibb County, Crawford County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2003, 3:18 PM EDT for Bibb County, Crawford County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 19, 2003, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bibb County, GA, Crawford County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 2537 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -19 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 191918
SVRATL
GAC021-079-191945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
317 PM EDT TUE AUG 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 309 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY TO
  EAST CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTY...DRIFTING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE
  LIZELLA...MUSELLA...AND KNOXVILLE.

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 3284 8409 3266 8384 3277 8368 3283 8391

$$

RAB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	24 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.