Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2004, 7:25 PM EDT for Forsyth County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Forsyth County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 142325 SVRATL GAC117-150000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 724 PM EDT WED JUL 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 722 PM EDT... A DANGEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTH OF DREW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DREW. RADAR INDICATES SOME ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE NEAR ITS PATH SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR LARGE DAMAGING HAIL AND VIOLENT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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 3421 8422 3413 8427 3406 8415 3415 8408 $$
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, 1:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding, Polk | 38 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, 7:28 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.