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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 31, 2005Butts County, Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2005, 9:04 AM EST for Butts County, Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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 31, 2005, 9:04 AM EST (14:04 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2005, 9:30 AM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Butts County, GA, Monroe County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 31, 8:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 53 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 311404
SVRFFC
GAC035-207-311430-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0140.050331T1404Z-050331T1430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
904 AM EST THU MAR 31 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTTS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 AM EST

* AT 859 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLOVILLA...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES.

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 3317 8407 3306 8403 3316 8382 3335 8388

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 311413
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
913 AM EST THU MAR 31 2005

GAC035-207-311430-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0140.000000T0000Z-050331T1430Z/
MONROE-BUTTS-
913 AM EST THU MAR 31 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 930 AM EST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN BUTTS AND NORTH CENTRAL MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 904 AM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM IS DECREASING IN INTENSITY. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGH FALLS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST 
OF FORSYTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BLOUNT
AND FLOVILLA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST
THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR CENTRAL GEORGIA.

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 3317 8407 3306 8403 3316 8382 3335 8388

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 1:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	29 min
Mar 31, 2:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot	33 min
Mar 31, 2:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	30 min
Mar 31, 5:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Monroe	28 min
Mar 31, 5:40 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	35 min
Mar 31, 6:04 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	28 min
Mar 31, 7:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren	34 min
Mar 31, 7:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup	27 min
Mar 31, 8:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	24 min
Mar 31, 8:17 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Troup	3 hr
Mar 31, 8:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	16 min
Mar 31, 8:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar	27 min
Mar 31, 9:11 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton	6 hr
Mar 31, 9:20 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Taylor	25 min
Mar 31, 9:36 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Barrow, Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta and 18 more	6 hr
Mar 31, 9:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	33 min
Mar 31, 9:45 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	5 hr
Mar 31, 10:15 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb	5 hr

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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.