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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 1:50 PM EDT for Barrow County, Jackson 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
- May 6, 2003, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barrow County, GA, Jackson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 10:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 6, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936 WFUS52 KFFC 061750 TORATL GAC013-157-061815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 150 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 145 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BRASELTON. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ARCADE... BRASELTON...HOSCHTON...JEFFERSON...NICHOLSON...RUSSELL AND WINDER. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW 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 3408 8384 3394 8380 3403 8340 3422 8349 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb, Paulding | 31 min |
| May 5, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 35 min |
| May 5, 10:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 28 min |
| May 5, 11:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 26 min |
| May 5, 11:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 26 min |
| May 6, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 32 min |
| May 6, 12:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 37 min |
| May 6, 12:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 4 hr |
| May 6, 1:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 7 hr |
| May 6, 4:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 3 hr |
| May 6, 8:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 3 hr |
| May 6, 8:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 4 hr |
| May 6, 10:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 35 min |
| May 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 31 min |
| May 6, 10:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 40 min |
| May 6, 10:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 46 min |
| May 6, 11:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon, Whitfield | 48 min |
| May 6, 11:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 3 hr |
| May 6, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 31 min |
| May 6, 11:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens, Polk | 52 min |
| May 6, 11:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 3 hr |
| May 6, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 28 min |
| May 6, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 30 min |
| May 6, 12:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 25 min |
| May 6, 12:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 24 min |
| May 6, 12:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens | 3 hr |
| May 6, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Lumpkin | 47 min |
| May 6, 12:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 44 min |
| May 6, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 31 min |
| May 6, 12:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 24 min |
| May 6, 12:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson | 3 hr |
| May 6, 1:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall | 29 min |
| May 6, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 35 min |
| May 6, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 45 min |
| May 6, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Paulding, Polk | 36 min |
| May 6, 1:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 3 hr |
| May 6, 1:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 29 min |
| May 6, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 41 min |
| May 6, 1:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison | 36 min |
| May 6, 2:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 3 hr |
| May 6, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 38 min |
| May 6, 2:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 36 min |
| May 6, 2:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jackson | 17 min |
| May 6, 2:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Paulding | 3 hr |
| May 6, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison | 37 min |
| May 6, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| May 6, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oglethorpe | 32 min |
| May 6, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 3 hr |
| May 6, 2:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson, Madison | 3 hr |
| May 6, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 27 min |
| May 6, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| May 6, 3:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Walton, Wilkes | 3 hr |
| May 6, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 30 min |
| May 6, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 47 min |
| May 6, 3:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 3 hr |
| May 6, 3:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Douglas | 3 hr |
| May 6, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 41 min |
| May 6, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton | 2 hr |
| May 6, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 42 min |
| May 6, 4:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 3 hr |
| May 6, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 34 min |
| May 6, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette, Fulton | 28 min |
| May 6, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 28 min |
| May 6, 4:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Greene, Henry, Morgan, Newton | 65 min |
| May 6, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 33 min |
| May 6, 5:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| May 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 6 hr |
| May 6, 6:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 84 min |
| May 6, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 22 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.