Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Atlanta, GA
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.
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 12:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 7:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 13 min |
| Mar 26, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 7:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 4:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 5:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 5:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 6:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Webster | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 11:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 12:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 12:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 28 min |
| Mar 27, 1:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 1:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 1:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 1:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 36 min |
| Mar 27, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 2:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 3:18 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 3:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 4:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 4:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 4:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Pulaski, Sumter and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 40 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.