Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2004, 4:09 PM EDT for Coweta County, Fulton 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 29, 2004, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2004, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Coweta County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 292009
SVRATL
GAC077-121-292045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
409 PM EDT SUN AUG 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 445 PM EDT
* AT 406 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ROSCOE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CANONGATE...
FAIRBURN...MADRAS...PALMETTO AND UNION CITY.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
THIS STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN
LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS CAN CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS.
EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.
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 3344 8484 3355 8482 3361 8476 3361 8446
3356 8446 3355 8448 3353 8458 3350 8462
3347 8463 3341 8462
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 35 min |
| Aug 28, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 35 min |
| Aug 29, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 43 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.