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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2004, 8:54 PM EDT for Towns County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Aug 20, 2004, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2004, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Towns County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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 210054
SVRATL
GAC281-210130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
853 PM EDT FRI AUG 20 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 930 PM EDT
* AT 849 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDERS
MILL TO 13 MILES SOUTH OF PRESLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...YOUNG
HARRIS.
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 3498 8395 3478 8378 3479 8368 3494 8361
3498 8357
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 31 min |
| Aug 20, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 37 min |
| Aug 20, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 31 min |
| Aug 20, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 32 min |
| Aug 20, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 36 min |
| Aug 20, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 32 min |
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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.