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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 7, 2003Troup County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 7:59 PM EDT for Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2003, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Troup County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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.

210 
WFUS52 KFFC 072359
TORATL
GAC285-080045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 756 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 18 MILES WEST OF LA
  GRANGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD
  PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LA GRANGE.

STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN ROANOKE...ALABAMA
WITH THIS STORM.

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 3320 8526 3305 8537 3287 8506 3306 8492

$$

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, 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

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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.