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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 20, 2003Telfair County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 2003, 2:52 PM EST for Telfair 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 20, 2003, 2:52 PM EST (19:52 UTC)
Expired
Mar 20, 2003, 3:15 PM EST
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Telfair County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 20, 2:35 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1354 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
9.3

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The text

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

741 
WUUS52 KFFC 201952
SVRATL
GAC271-202015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
252 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 315 PM EST

* AT 248 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER JACKSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HELENA...
JACKSONVILLE...MCRAE AND SCOTLAND.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED 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 3194 8309 3211 8293 3197 8273

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 7:04 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCTaylor41 min
Mar 19, 7:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta33 min
Mar 19, 7:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford44 min
Mar 19, 7:44 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCTaylor31 min
Mar 19, 7:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb26 min
Mar 19, 7:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs23 min
Mar 19, 7:54 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCCrawford, Peach36 min
Mar 19, 7:56 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCCrawford, Peach34 min
Mar 19, 8:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb25 min
Mar 19, 8:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkinson32 min
Mar 19, 8:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston33 min
Mar 19, 8:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkinson54 min
Mar 19, 8:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkinson50 min
Mar 19, 8:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin45 min
Mar 19, 8:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs27 min
Mar 19, 9:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock50 min
Mar 19, 9:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs, Wilkinson31 min
Mar 19, 9:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington, Wilkinson29 min
Mar 19, 10:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Haralson39 min
Mar 19, 11:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJefferson28 min
Mar 19, 11:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta31 min
Mar 19, 11:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalton28 min
Mar 19, 11:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton31 min
Mar 20, 12:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett25 min
Mar 20, 12:12 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether33 min
Mar 20, 12:20 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCWalton25 min
Mar 20, 12:42 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup33 min
Mar 20, 12:59 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether31 min
Mar 20, 1:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCClayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Spalding3 hr
Mar 20, 3:19 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCBanks, Barrow, Jackson, Walton116 min
Mar 20, 4:55 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCClayton, Henry3 hr
Mar 20, 5:30 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCBanks, Barrow, Jackson, Walton4 hr
Mar 20, 7:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair23 min
Mar 20, 7:19 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge, Laurens4 hr
Mar 20, 7:25 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCPulaski4 hr
Mar 20, 7:29 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly, Wilcox4 hr
Mar 20, 7:29 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCJohnson4 hr
Mar 20, 8:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCBarrow, Jackson, Walton3 hr
Mar 20, 9:48 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCBarrow, Jackson6 hr
Mar 20, 2:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Treutlen37 min
Mar 20, 2:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel27 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.