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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 22, 2004Towns County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2004, 4:58 PM EDT for Towns County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 22, 2004, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Towns County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 700 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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.

093 
WUUS52 KFFC 222058
SVRATL
GAC281-222145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
458 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 455 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL TOWNS COUNTY...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL EASTERN
TOWNS COUNTY.

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

THIS STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN
LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS CAN CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS.

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 3487 8367 3481 8366 3479 8369 3479 8376
          3482 8379 3490 8380 3498 8370 3498 8356
          3495 8356

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	51 min
May 22, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	36 min
May 22, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	28 min
May 22, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Pickens	28 min
May 22, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson	33 min
May 22, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Union	36 min
May 22, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray	35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.