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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 2004Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2004, 4:06 PM EDT for Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2004, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilkinson County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 4:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 E Gordon, GA	A FEW TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ON GORDON-MCINTYRE ROAD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 728 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

686 
WUUS52 KFFC 252006
SVRATL
GAC319-252030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
406 PM EDT FRI JUN 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 405 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER IVEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GORDON AND
IVEY.

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 3290 8337 3280 8332 3289 8304 3300 8316

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	29 min
Jun 25, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	50 min
Jun 25, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock	34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.