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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2004, 12:04 PM EST for Bleckley County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 12:04 PM EST (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bleckley County, GA
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, 10:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 241704 SVRFFC GAC023-241730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1203 PM EST WED NOV 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1230 PM EST * AT NOON EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOLDSBORO TO 17 MILES WEST OF GOLDSBORO...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FIVE POINTS...COLEY...CARY AND BROWN HILL. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DOWNED TREES ACROSS HOUSTON COUNTY. THIS IS A 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 3258 8324 3245 8349 3239 8332 3250 8319 $$
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, 10:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 35 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, 12:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 47 min |
| Nov 24, 12:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 33 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.