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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 13, 2004Harris County, Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 2:51 PM EDT for Harris County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Harris County, GA, Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 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

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The text

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

529 
WUUS52 KFFC 131851
SVRATL
GAC145-215-131915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
251 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN MUSCOGEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 250 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MIDLAND THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY
  STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CATAULA...
ELLERSLIE...FORTSON...MIDLAND AND MULBERRY GROVE.

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 3251 8497 3251 8476 3269 8476 3269 8498

$$

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, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether	25 min
Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	33 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.