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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 27, 2004Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2004, 6:11 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2004, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Muscogee County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 27, 6:12 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Columbus, GA	WIND DAMAGE TO THE WALDEN CHASE APARTMENTS ON VETERANS MEMORIAL PARKWAY IN COLUMBUS. SIDING AND SHINGLES WERE BLOWN OFF AN APARTMENT ROOF.
Jun 27, 6:15 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Columbus, GA	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
Jun 27, 6:15 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Columbus, GA	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

601 
WUUS52 KFFC 272211
SVRATL
GAC215-272245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
611 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MUSCOGEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 604 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST COLUMBUS...MOVING EAST AT     
  15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...COLUMBUS.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS 
IF POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING 
TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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 3246 8498 3252 8498 3256 8503 3259 8505
      3259 8491 3257 8485 3257 8470 3254 8468
      3251 8472 3245 8474

$$

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.