Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT for Newton County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2005, 8:33 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Newton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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 080001
SVRFFC
GAC217-080030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0156.050408T0000Z-050408T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
800 PM EDT THU APR 7 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 755 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PORTERDALE...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
OXFORD AND COVINGTON.
VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO FALLING WITH THIS STORM. MINOR STREET
FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY WITH
THIS STORM.
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 3346 8393 3348 8393 3351 8399 3358 8406
3371 8387 3364 8376 3364 8373 3359 8369
3357 8369 3346 8390
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KFFC 080021
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
822 PM EDT THU APR 7 2005
GAC217-080030-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0156.000000T0000Z-050408T0030Z/
NEWTON-
822 PM EDT THU APR 7 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR
NEWTON COUNTY...
AT 816 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COVINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
PORTERDALE...ALMON...OXFORD AND ALCOVY.
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3346 8393 3348 8393 3351 8399 3358 8406
3371 8387 3364 8376 3364 8373 3359 8369
3357 8369 3346 8390
$$000
WWUS52 KFFC 080033
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
832 PM EDT THU APR 7 2005
GAC217-080042-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0156.000000T0000Z-050408T0030Z/
NEWTON-
832 PM EDT THU APR 7 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NEWTON COUNTY EXPIRED AT 830
PM EDT...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE
SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 35 MPH...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
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 3346 8393 3348 8393 3351 8399 3358 8406
3371 8387 3364 8376 3364 8373 3359 8369
3357 8369 3346 8390
$$Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.