Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 1:50 PM EDT for Harris County, Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 13, 2004, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harris County, GA, Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 461 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 131750 SVRATL GAC145-199-131815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 150 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 144 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PINE MOUNTAIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DURAND... HARRIS CITY...PINE MOUNTAIN...PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY...PRIMROSE... RALEIGH...STOVALL AND WARM SPRINGS. 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 3283 8499 3273 8480 3293 8463 3305 8485 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 11:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 11:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2004Every 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.