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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 11:05 PM EDT for Harris County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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, 11:05 PM EDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harris County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 080305 TORATL GAC145-080330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1104 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT * AT 1059 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER HAMILTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HAMILTON AND WAVERLY HALL. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY ISSUED AT 1041 PM. 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 3273 8509 3262 8506 3262 8470 3280 8470 $$
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, 10:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.