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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 19, 2003Catoosa County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 10:20 AM EST for Catoosa County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 19, 2003, 10:20 AM EST (15:20 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2003, 10:45 AM EST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Catoosa County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 19, 9:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -267 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 417 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 730 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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

340 
WUUS52 KFFC 191520
SVRATL
GAC047-191545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1020 AM EST WED MAR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EST

* AT 1018 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RINGGOLD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...FORT
OGLETHORPE...INDIAN SPRINGS AND RINGGOLD.

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 3492 8530 3479 8514 3493 8503 3500 8514

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 10:40 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	35 min
Mar 19, 10:52 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa	23 min
Mar 19, 2:25 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dade	35 min
Mar 19, 2:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dade	33 min
Mar 19, 3:29 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	31 min
Mar 19, 3:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga	34 min
Mar 19, 4:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	31 min
Mar 19, 4:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	46 min
Mar 19, 5:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	38 min
Mar 19, 5:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	33 min
Mar 19, 5:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	46 min
Mar 19, 5:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	44 min
Mar 19, 5:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	41 min
Mar 19, 5:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee	33 min
Mar 19, 5:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee	31 min
Mar 19, 6:06 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Heard	24 min
Mar 19, 6:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Polk	35 min
Mar 19, 6:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard	49 min
Mar 19, 6:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	28 min
Mar 19, 6:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	30 min
Mar 19, 6:58 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Marion	32 min

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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.