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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 14, 2004Cobb County, Paulding County, Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2004, 1:37 AM EDT for Cobb County, Paulding County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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 14, 2004, 1:37 AM EDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2004, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cobb County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 2122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 140537
SVRATL
GAC067-223-233-140615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
137 AM EDT WED JUL 14 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 215 AM EDT

* AT 133 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF ACWORTH TO
  10 MILES WEST OF FISH CREEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...ACWORTH...
  DALLAS...FISH CREEK...KENNESAW...MARIETTA AND ROCKMART.

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 3408 8441 3399 8537 3389 8518 3389 8460

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 11:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	24 min
Jul 14, 12:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Murray, Whitfield	49 min
Jul 14, 12:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	27 min
Jul 14, 12:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Gilmer, Gordon	50 min
Jul 14, 12:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union	46 min
Jul 14, 1:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	27 min
Jul 14, 1:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin, Pickens	46 min
Jul 14, 1:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	45 min
Jul 14, 1:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	35 min
Jul 14, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	36 min
Jul 14, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	25 min
Jul 14, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	40 min
Jul 14, 4:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fannin	47 min
Jul 14, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	33 min
Jul 14, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	26 min
Jul 14, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	46 min
Jul 14, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, Union	42 min
Jul 14, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Pickens	51 min
Jul 14, 5:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fannin	3 hr
Jul 14, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	41 min
Jul 14, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	32 min
Jul 14, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	29 min
Jul 14, 5:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Pickens	23 min
Jul 14, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson	49 min
Jul 14, 5:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee	46 min
Jul 14, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson	64 min
Jul 14, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	23 min
Jul 14, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	47 min
Jul 14, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Fulton	36 min
Jul 14, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	28 min
Jul 14, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oconee, Walton	51 min
Jul 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	41 min
Jul 14, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	35 min
Jul 14, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	63 min
Jul 14, 7:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fulton	31 min
Jul 14, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	35 min
Jul 14, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene	62 min
Jul 14, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	29 min
Jul 14, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	46 min
Jul 14, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	41 min

Nearby

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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.