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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 31, 2004Towns County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2004, 5:20 AM EDT for Towns County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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 31, 2004, 5:20 AM EDT (09:20 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 5:45 AM EDT
In force: 25 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), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 5:35 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 N Hiawassee, GA	SEVERAL TREES REPORTED DOWN. POWER LINES ALSO DOWN.

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 31, 1:40 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 1721 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

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

601 
WUUS52 KFFC 310920
SVRATL
GAC281-310945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
520 AM EDT MON MAY 31 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 AM EDT

* AT 514 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PRESLEY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HIAWASSEE...
PRESLEY AND TATE CITY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES 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 3499 8380 3476 8376 3478 8366 3501 8350

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 3:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	28 min
May 31, 3:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	32 min
May 31, 3:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Whitfield	43 min
May 31, 3:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Murray	51 min
May 31, 4:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield	45 min
May 31, 4:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	44 min
May 31, 8:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Oconee	29 min
May 31, 8:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oglethorpe	50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.