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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2004, 10:10 AM EST for Henry County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Nov 24, 2004, 10:10 AM EST (15:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Henry County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 8:25 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 241510
SVRFFC
GAC151-241545-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1009 AM EST WED NOV 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1045 AM EST
* AT 1005 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAMPTON TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
HAMPTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MCDONOUGH AND FLIPPEN.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE.
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER NOW
INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
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 3349 8429 3334 8435 3336 8401 3350 8400
3357 8416
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 8:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 8:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 49 min |
| Nov 24, 9:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 9:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 52 min |
| Nov 24, 9:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 9:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 9:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 50 min |
| Nov 24, 9:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 46 min |
| Nov 24, 9:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 9:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 9:48 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 9:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 9:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 10:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Pickens | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 10:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 10:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 40 min |
| Nov 24, 10:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Lumpkin and 1 more | 36 min |
| Nov 24, 10:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 10:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 10:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 43 min |
| Nov 24, 10:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Walton and 1 more | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 10:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 47 min |
| Nov 24, 11:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and 1 more | 37 min |
| Nov 24, 11:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Peach | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 11:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 11:55 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 12:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 12:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 26 min |
| Nov 24, 12:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 47 min |
| Nov 24, 12:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 33 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.