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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 7, 2003Heard County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 5:51 PM EDT for Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2003, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Heard County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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, 3:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 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

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The text

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

482 
WFUS52 KFFC 072151
TORATL
GAC149-072245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
550 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 548 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A  TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EPHESUS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. 
THIS DANGEROUS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGE IN RANDOLPH 
COUNTY ALABAMA.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CENTRALHATCHEE...EPHESUS AND FRANKLIN.

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 DAMAGING HAIL AND
VIOLENT 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 3339 8554 3321 8548 3324 8496 3344 8502

$$

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, 4:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll, Heard	33 min
May 7, 5:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Carroll	3 hr
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

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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.