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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 9, 2004Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2004, 6:38 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2004, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Floyd County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 9, 6:40 PM EDT	HAIL 1	2 W Rome, GA
May 9, 6:40 PM EDT	HAIL 1	3 W Rome, GA
May 9, 6:40 PM EDT	HAIL 1.25	Rome, GA	HAIL IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 092238
SVRATL
GAC115-092315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
638 PM EDT SUN MAY 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 636 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ROME...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LINDALE AND
ROME.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND 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 3436 8533 3443 8518 3460 8508 3446 8510
          3418 8511 3418 8533

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	34 min
May 9, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pickens	45 min
May 9, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	27 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.