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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 23, 2004Meriwether County, Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2004, 5:50 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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 23, 2004, 5:50 PM EDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Upson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.8 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-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: 154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

864 
WUUS52 KFFC 232150
SVRATL
GAC199-263-293-232230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
549 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 544 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WARM SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CHALYBEATE
SPRINGS...MANCHESTER...PLEASANT HILL...THOMASTON AND WOODBURY.

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN 
IN HARRIS COUNTY AS THIS STORM PASSED.

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 3295 8476 3273 8472 3276 8425 3300 8440

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	42 min
Jun 23, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	22 min
Jun 23, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	46 min
Jun 23, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones, Monroe	47 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.