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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 13, 2005Dade County, Murray County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 2005, 3:44 PM EST for Dade County, Murray County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2005, 3:44 PM EST (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2005, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 39 days
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dade County, GA, Murray County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 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 132044
SVRFFC
GAC213-132115-
/X.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0001.050113T2044Z-050113T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
344 PM EST THU JAN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EST

* AT 338 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RAMHURST...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CRANDALL AND CHATSWORTH.

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 3478 8487 3464 8471 3500 8459 3501 8476

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 211634
SVRFFC
GAC083-211700-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0001.050221T1634Z-050221T1700Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1134 AM EST MON FEB 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL NOON EST

* AT 1128 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
  ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW ENGLAND TO
  21 MILES WEST OF TRENTON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WILDWOOD...RISING FAWN AND CLOUDLAND STATE PARK.

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 3500 8560 3479 8559 3463 8552 3500 8536

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 4:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Oglethorpe	39 days
Jan 13, 4:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Hancock	33 min
Jan 13, 5:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Warren	39 days
Jan 13, 5:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren	24 min
Jan 13, 5:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Oconee	39 days
Jan 13, 5:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bartow, Warren	39 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.