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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 8, 2004Oglethorpe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2004, 12:32 AM EDT for Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 8, 2004, 12:32 AM EDT (04:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2004, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oglethorpe County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2004-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1511 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2004-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1511 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 080432
SVRATL
GAC221-080500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1232 AM EDT THU JUL 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OGLETHORPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 100 AM EDT

* AT 1231 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ARNOLDSVILLE...CRAWFORD AND LEXINGTON.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.

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 3398 8326 3380 8320 3393 8287 3404 8296

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton, Rockdale45 min
Jul 7, 11:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton23 min
Jul 7, 11:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalton36 min
Jul 8, 12:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow30 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.