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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 13, 2004Carroll County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 3:27 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carroll County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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.

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.

186 
WUUS52 KFFC 131927
SVRATL
GAC045-132000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 325 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BURWELL...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BOWDEN
JUNCTION...BOWDON...BURWELL...CARROLLTON...CLEM...JAKE...LOWELL...
MOUNT ZION...ROOPVILLE AND TYUS.

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 3344 8527 3345 8495 3370 8500 3365 8532

$$

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, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.