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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 4:59 PM EST for Chattooga County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 4:59 PM EST (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chattooga County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 192159 SVRATL GAC055-192245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 459 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 545 PM EST * AT 358 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LYERLY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LYERLY... MENLO...SUMMERVILLE AND TRION. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH..DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. IF THIS STORM APPROACHES YOU...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY 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 3436 8564 3423 8549 3448 8515 3460 8536 $$
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, 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.