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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 22, 2004Carroll County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2004, 8:33 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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 22, 2004, 8:33 PM EDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
42 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), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 55 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2004-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 740 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2004-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 230033
SVRATL
GAC045-230115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
832 PM EDT TUE JUN 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 826 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JAKE TO TYUS...MOVING EAST AT
  10 MPH. WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS IN EASTERN 
  ALABAMA.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BOWDEN
JUNCTION...BOWDON...BURWELL...CARROLLTON...CLEM...VILLA RICA AND
WHITESBURG.

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 3343 8529 3365 8533 3370 8505 3381 8504
      3378 8491 3377 8490 3358 8491 3357 8482
      3344 8492 3346 8497 3343 8501

$$

RAB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Talbot, Upson40 min
Jun 23, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson22 min
Jun 23, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Crawford46 min
Jun 23, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones, Monroe47 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.