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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 23, 2004Jones County, Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2004, 6:58 PM EDT for Jones County, Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jones County, GA, Monroe County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.

332 
WUUS52 KFFC 232258
SVRATL
GAC169-207-232345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  EASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 654 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BOLINGBROKE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
BLANTSVILLE...BOLINGBROKE...CLINTON...EAST JULIETTE...GRAY...ROUND
OAK AND WAYSIDE.

WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

THIS STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT UP TO ONE INCH 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 3307 8394 3290 8388 3296 8336 3319 8343

$$

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, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Talbot, Upson	40 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

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.