Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. 8 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
- Apr 12, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2004, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 7:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Columbus, GA | SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN. |
| Apr 12, 7:00 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Columbus, GA | |
| Apr 12, 7:05 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Columbus, GA | |
| Apr 12, 7:10 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Fort Benning South, GA | SEVERAL TREES REPORTED DOWN. POWER LINES ALSO REPORTED DOWN. |
| Apr 12, 7:10 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | 1 E Columbus, GA | LOCATION WAS 1 MILE EAST OF AIRPORT |
| Apr 12, 7:10 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Columbus, GA | EAST SIDE OF COLUMBUS. |
| Apr 12, 7:15 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Columbus, GA | |
| Apr 12, 7:20 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Columbus, GA | SEVERAL CARS BLOWN OFF HIGHWAY AT EXIT 10 ON INTERSTATE 185. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
366
WUUS52 KFFC 122300
SVRATL
GAC053-215-122330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
659 PM EDT MON APR 12 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
MUSCOGEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT
* AT 652 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FORT BENNING...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...COLUMBUS AND
FORT BENNING.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
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 3236 8495 3247 8499 3254 8493 3256 8481
3251 8467 3231 8488
$$
RABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 33 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.