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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 21, 2004Jones County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2004, 6:13 PM EDT for Jones 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: May 21, 2004, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jones County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 551 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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.

302 
WUUS52 KFFC 212213
SVRATL
GAC169-212245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
612 PM EDT FRI MAY 21 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER JONES COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5    
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL NORTH  
  CENTRAL JONES COUNTY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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 3304 8372 3299 8356 3318 8343 3316 8366

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	36 min
May 21, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	29 min
May 21, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Spalding	24 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.