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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 5, 2004Cobb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2004, 4:13 PM EDT for Cobb County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2004, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cobb County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 5, 4:25 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG5 Nne Marietta, GASEVERAL TREES REPORTED DOWN IN THE BLACKWELLS AREA.
Aug 5, 4:25 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG5 Nne Marietta, GASEVERAL TREES REPORTED DOWN IN THE BLACKWELLS AREA.
Aug 5, 4:40 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG6 Nne Marietta, GAFABRIC STORE PARTIALLY COLLAPSED DUE TO HIGH WINDS ON GEORGIA HIGHWAY 5 IN THE BLACKWELLS AREA.

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 73 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2004-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 245 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2004-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 052013
SVRATL
GAC067-052045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 411 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF KENNESAW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ACWORTH...
KENNESAW...MARIETTA AND WHITEWATER.

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 3409 8469 3399 8467 3388 8445 3407 8441

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 2:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks36 min
Aug 5, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJackson36 min
Aug 5, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke26 min
Aug 5, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCOglethorpe25 min
Aug 5, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene36 min
Aug 5, 6:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCCobb2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.