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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 4:57 PM EDT for Carroll County, Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 7, 2003, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Carroll County, GA, Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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 7, 11:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 7, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS52 KFFC 072057 TORATL GAC045-149-072130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 456 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA NORTHERN HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 352 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER BOWDON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. THIS CONTINUES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ON THIS STORM. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BOWDON... CARROLLTON...CENTRALHATCHEE...EPHESUS AND ROOPVILLE. 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 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 3361 8535 3344 8540 3330 8497 3361 8497 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 4 hr |
| May 6, 10:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Monroe | 4 hr |
| May 6, 10:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Lamar, Meriwether, Pike | 4 hr |
| May 7, 2:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 31 min |
| May 7, 2:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens | 117 min |
| May 7, 2:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens | 34 min |
| May 7, 3:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 26 min |
| May 7, 3:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 37 min |
| May 7, 8:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin, Towns, Union | 3 hr |
| May 7, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 38 min |
| May 7, 5:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll | 3 hr |
| May 7, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard | 54 min |
| May 7, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 46 min |
| May 7, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 40 min |
| May 7, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 51 min |
| May 7, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 59 min |
| May 7, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 40 min |
| May 7, 6:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 37 min |
| May 7, 7:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 4 hr |
| May 7, 7:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 3 hr |
| May 7, 7:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| May 7, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 41 min |
| May 7, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 49 min |
| May 7, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 46 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.