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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 5, 2004Greene County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2004, 3:54 PM EDT for Greene 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, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greene County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 5, 4:07 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Wrayswood, GA	SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON GEORGIA HIGHWAY 15.
Aug 5, 4:07 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Wrayswood, GA	SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON GEORGIA HIGHWAY 15.

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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 051954
SVRATL
GAC133-052030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
354 PM EDT THU AUG 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 351 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WRAYSWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GREENSBORO...
UNION POINT AND WRAYSWOOD.

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 3375 8326 3366 8340 3345 8307 3365 8296

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	36 min
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, 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.