Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2004, 2:09 PM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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
- Aug 5, 2004, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2004, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Banks County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:27 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Homer, GA | SEVERAL TREES ALSO REPORTED DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
| Aug 5, 2:27 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Homer, GA | SEVERAL TREES ALSO REPORTED DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 051809 SVRATL GAC011-051845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 209 PM EDT THU AUG 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 204 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOMER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HOMER. 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 3444 8353 3432 8364 3421 8342 3425 8333 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 6:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 2 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.