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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 7, 2005Meriwether County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2005, 7:22 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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: Apr 7, 2005, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meriwether County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 421 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 514 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 072322
SVRFFC
GAC199-080000-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0153.050407T2322Z-050408T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
722 PM EDT THU APR 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 719 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GREENVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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

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 3299 8479 3302 8454 3321 8448 3323 8464

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 072357
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
756 PM EDT THU APR 7 2005

GAC199-080006-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0153.000000T0000Z-050408T0000Z/
MERIWETHER-
756 PM EDT THU APR 7 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MERIWETHER COUNTY 
EXPIRES AT 800 PM EDT...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKEND AND THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.


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 3299 8479 3302 8454 3321 8448 3323 8464

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Polk	39 min
Apr 7, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Schley, Taylor	63 min
Apr 7, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	46 min
Apr 7, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	35 min
Apr 7, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	47 min
Apr 7, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry	25 min
Apr 7, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Macon	71 min
Apr 7, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	32 min
Apr 7, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall, Jackson	40 min
Apr 7, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	30 min
Apr 7, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Spalding	47 min
Apr 7, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Oconee	30 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.