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Tornado Warning 58, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 7, 2003Harris County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 10:41 PM EDT for Harris County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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, 10:41 PM EDT (02:41 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2003, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harris County, GA

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, 8:50 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 2242 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 8.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

143 
WFUS52 KFFC 080241
TORATL
GAC145-080330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1041 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT

* AT 1039 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES WEST OF
  HAMILTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD
  PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

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

VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY MAKE THIS TORNADO INVISIBLE - TAKE COVER NOW IF
YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO
A SAFE PLACE.

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 3288 8519 3270 8521 3264 8480 3287 8477

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 8:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fayette	3 hr
May 7, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	32 min
May 7, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Spalding	46 min
May 7, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	55 min
May 7, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	61 min
May 7, 10:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Troup	3 hr
May 7, 11:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris	25 min
May 7, 11:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	45 min
May 7, 11:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard	4 hr
May 8, 12:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Meriwether	4 hr
May 8, 1:11 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Troup	3 hr
May 8, 3:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	26 min
May 8, 3:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot	39 min
May 8, 3:28 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	47 min
May 8, 3:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Heard	3 hr
May 8, 4:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Troup	2 hr
May 8, 4:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	35 min
May 8, 4:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Meriwether	3 hr
May 8, 6:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Troup	2 hr

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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.