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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2004, 11:13 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 12, 2004, 11:13 PM EDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2004, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 823 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 130313
SVRATL
GAC199-130345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1111 PM EDT MON APR 12 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT
* AT 1109 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WARM SPRINGS IN HARRIS
COUNTY NEAR HAMILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GAY...
GREENVILLE...WARM SPRINGS...AND WOODBURY.
THIS STORM HAS HAD A LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
GOLF BALLS...AND IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
GOLF BALLS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.
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 3287 8477 3285 8488 3309 8474 3321 8450
3298 8455 3283 8466
$$
RABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 10:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 26 min |
| Apr 12, 10:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 11:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 30 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.