Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 633
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 2004, 3:15 PM CDT for 38 counties in Alabama; 77 counties in Georgia; 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2004, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 119 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, White County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Marshall | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Morgan | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah, St. Clair | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fulton | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Marshall, Morgan | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 21 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | DeKalb, Jackson, Madison | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 10:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson and 5 more | 114 min |
| Jul 14, 12:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more | 117 min |
| Jul 14, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colbert, DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more | 91 min |
| Jul 14, 6:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 32 more | 97 min |
| Jul 14, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Lincoln and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greenville | 85 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.