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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 13, 2005Hancock County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 2005, 4:33 PM EST for Hancock County, Oglethorpe 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, 4:33 PM EST (21:33 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2005, 2:30 PM EST
In force: 39 days
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hancock County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 132133
SVRFFC
GAC141-132215-
/X.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0010.050113T2133Z-050113T2215Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 426 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF SPARTA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  POWELTON.

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 3308 8312 3310 8294 3328 8275 3344 8288

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 211859
SVRFFC
GAC221-211930-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0010.050221T1859Z-050221T1930Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OGLETHORPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 230 PM EST

* AT 156 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CRAWFORD...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SANDY
  CROSS.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

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 3396 8327 3379 8326 3374 8297 3394 8289

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 3:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Murray	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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.