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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 27, 2005Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2005, 2:46 PM EST for Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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
Mar 27, 2005, 2:46 PM EST (19:46 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 2005, 3:30 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 27, 12:40 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 39 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 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 271946
SVRFFC
GAC045-097-272030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0117.050327T1946Z-050327T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
246 PM EST SUN MAR 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 PM EST

* AT 243 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITESBURG...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  LITHIA SPRINGS AND DOUGLASVILLE.

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 3348 8502 3377 8490 3379 8462 3377 8459
      3375 8458 3373 8459 3357 8482 3349 8486
      3347 8490

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 7:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp13 min
Mar 26, 7:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee25 min
Mar 26, 7:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski33 min
Mar 27, 4:16 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter, Webster44 min
Mar 27, 5:24 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart3 hr
Mar 27, 5:38 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Stewart37 min
Mar 27, 6:03 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWebster27 min
Mar 27, 11:34 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Pulaski26 min
Mar 27, 12:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter35 min
Mar 27, 12:53 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly, Sumter4 hr
Mar 27, 1:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup28 min
Mar 27, 1:16 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCBleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs4 hr
Mar 27, 1:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Heard35 min
Mar 27, 1:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Hancock, Putnam33 min
Mar 27, 1:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris34 min
Mar 27, 1:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard, Troup36 min
Mar 27, 2:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether34 min
Mar 27, 2:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton26 min
Mar 27, 2:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth26 min
Mar 27, 2:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Hall31 min
Mar 27, 3:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLumpkin, White38 min
Mar 27, 3:18 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCMeriwether, Troup3 hr
Mar 27, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Paulding45 min
Mar 27, 3:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Cobb40 min
Mar 27, 4:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPickens26 min
Mar 27, 4:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Gilmer34 min
Mar 27, 4:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin, Union47 min
Mar 27, 4:59 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCBleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Pulaski, Sumter and 1 more6 hr
Mar 27, 6:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Walker40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.