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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2005, 8:38 PM EDT for Murray County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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 22, 2005, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2005, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Murray County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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 22, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 230039
SVRFFC
GAC213-230115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0219.050423T0038Z-050423T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
838 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 915 PM EDT
* AT 836 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GREGORYS MILL...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CRANDALL...CISCO...ETON AND CHATSWORTH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 3484 8462 3482 8459 3483 8473 3484 8475
3484 8485 3484 8485 3486 8481 3495 8482
3499 8480 3499 8463
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 230100
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
900 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005
GAC213-230115-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0219.000000T0000Z-050423T0115Z/
MURRAY-
900 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN MURRAY COUNTY...
AT 858 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CISCO...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST
OF CHATSWORTH...MOVING WEST AT 60 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3484 8462 3483 8459 3484 8473 3485 8475
3494 8476 3499 8463
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 8:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 37 min |
| Apr 22, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 9:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 15 min |
| Apr 22, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 23 min |
| Apr 22, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 24 min |
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.