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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 31, 2004Clarke County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2004, 8:40 AM EDT for Clarke County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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 31, 2004, 8:40 AM EDT (12:40 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 9:30 AM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clarke County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 858 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

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

547 
WUUS52 KFFC 311240
SVRATL
GAC059-221-311330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CLARKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
  OGLETHORPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 AM EDT

* AT 837 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF WHITEHALL...MOVING EAST AT 50
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ARNOLDSVILLE...CRAWFORD...LEXINGTON...MAXEYS...SANDY CROSS...STEPHENS
AND WHITEHALL.

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 3390 8342 3372 8320 3379 8296 3403 8299

$$

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, 5:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	25 min
May 31, 8:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Oconee	29 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.