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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 13, 2005Jefferson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2005, 6:00 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 13, 2005, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2005, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jefferson County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 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 132200
SVRFFC
GAC163-132230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0162.050413T2201Z-050413T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
601 PM EDT WED APR 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JEFFERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

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 3324 8248 3311 8262 3289 8243 3305 8228

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 132221
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
621 PM EDT WED APR 13 2005

GAC163-132230-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0162.000000T0000Z-050413T2230Z/
JEFFERSON-
621 PM EDT WED APR 13 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR
CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY...

AT 616 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

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 3324 8248 3311 8262 3289 8243 3305 8228

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oglethorpe	33 min
Apr 13, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	36 min
Apr 13, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	37 min
Apr 13, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow	26 min
Apr 13, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas	28 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.