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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2005, 6:20 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 12, 2005, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2005, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherokee County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 513 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 122221
SVRFFC
GAC057-122245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0157.050412T2220Z-050412T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
620 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 617 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODSTOCK...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HOLLY
SPRINGS.
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 3418 8466 3408 8461 3409 8444 3419 8428
3427 8426
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 122239
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
637 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005
GAC057-122245-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0157.000000T0000Z-050412T2245Z/
CHEROKEE-
637 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY...
AT 633 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODSTOCK...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTION
OF FULTON COUNTY AND EXIT CHEROKEE COUNTY.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3418 8466 3408 8461 3409 8444 3419 8428
3427 8426
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 29 min |
| Apr 12, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 32 min |
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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.