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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 6, 2003Wilkes County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilkes County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 6, 1:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 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

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The text

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

139 
WFUS52 KFFC 061915
TORATL
GAC317-061945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
312 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 311 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES WEST OF TIGNALL...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A
  TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TIGNALL.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. 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 3399 8288 3382 8297 3360 8245 3399 8240

$$

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, 1:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	25 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, 3:28 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.