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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 10:52 AM EST for Catoosa County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 10:52 AM EST (15:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 11:15 AM EST
- In force
- 23 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 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 191552 SVRATL GAC047-191615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1052 AM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1115 AM EST * AT 1048 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FORT OGLETHORPE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...FORT OGLETHORPE...INDIAN SPRINGS AND LAKEVIEW. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR VERY LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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 3497 8527 3489 8525 3494 8500 3500 8502 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 10:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 35 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 |
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.