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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 2, 2003Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2003, 7:46 PM EDT for Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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: May 2, 2003, 7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carroll County, GA, Haralson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 2, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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 
WFUS52 KFFC 022346
TORATL
GAC045-143-030015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
745 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 741 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF TALLAPOOSA.  THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BREMEN...
BUCHANAN...MOUNT ZION...TALLAPOOSA AND WACO.

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID 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 3389 8544 3373 8554 3354 8517 3374 8504

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	29 min
May 1, 8:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	22 min
May 1, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	28 min
May 1, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	29 min
May 1, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow	24 min
May 1, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley	29 min
May 1, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Muscogee	37 min
May 1, 9:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	29 min
May 1, 10:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Pickens	41 min
May 2, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	26 min
May 2, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	35 min
May 2, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	30 min
May 2, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	56 min
May 2, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	35 min
May 2, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	24 min
May 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	30 min
May 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	62 min
May 2, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	32 min
May 2, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	46 min
May 2, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	45 min
May 2, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	31 min
May 2, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	35 min
May 2, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	31 min
May 2, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	28 min
May 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	24 min
May 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Rockdale, Walton	39 min
May 2, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	22 min
May 2, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	37 min
May 2, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe	47 min
May 2, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Newton	53 min
May 2, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Spalding	55 min
May 2, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	36 min
May 2, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Putnam	43 min
May 2, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Spalding	39 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.