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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 18, 2004Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2004, 3:29 PM EDT for Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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: May 18, 2004, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 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.

340 
WUUS52 KFFC 181929
SVRATL
GAC231-182000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
328 PM EDT TUE MAY 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 321 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CONCORD AND
MEANSVILLE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3303 8452 3299 8436 3305 8426 3313 8444

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	24 min
May 18, 3:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Walker	118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2004 Every 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.