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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 30, 2005Bartow County, Gordon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2005, 6:17 AM EDT for Bartow County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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 30, 2005, 6:17 AM EDT (10:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2005, 7:00 AM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bartow County, GA, Gordon County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 30, 6:05 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 2071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 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 301016
SVRFFC
GAC015-129-301100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0240.050430T1017Z-050430T1100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
617 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 AM EDT

* AT 614 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF OOSTANAULA...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  REDBUD...PINE LOG...KINGSTON...FOLSOM...EUHARLEE...CASSVILLE...
  CARTERSVILLE...CALHOUN...AUDUBON AND ADAIRSVILLE.

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 3445 8508 3413 8504 3414 8470 3458 8473
      3457 8503

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 301034
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
633 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005

GAC015-129-301100-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0240.000000T0000Z-050430T1100Z/
BARTOW-GORDON-
633 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR
GORDON AND BARTOW COUNTIES...

AT 627 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FOLSOM...OR ABOUT 8
MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALHOUN...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM EDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHWESTERN 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 3445 8508 3413 8504 3414 8470 3458 8473
      3457 8503

$$
KDF

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 301052
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
651 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005

GAC015-129-301100-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0240.000000T0000Z-050430T1100Z/
BARTOW-GORDON-
651 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR
GORDON AND BARTOW COUNTIES...

AT 649 AM EDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS REPORTED CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES EAST OF AUDUBON TO 7
MILES EAST OF PINE LOG TO CARTERSVILLE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHATSWORTH TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON
TO CARTERSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM EDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHWESTERN 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 3445 8508 3413 8504 3414 8470 3458 8473
      3457 8503

$$
KDF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 5:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	43 min
Apr 30, 6:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	52 min
Apr 30, 6:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	39 min
Apr 30, 6:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	46 min
Apr 30, 6:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	51 min
Apr 30, 6:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	48 min
Apr 30, 7:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard, Troup	55 min
Apr 30, 9:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	35 min
Apr 30, 9:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Muscogee	32 min
Apr 30, 9:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Webster	32 min
Apr 30, 10:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Sumter, Taylor	30 min
Apr 30, 10:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	34 min
Apr 30, 11:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	35 min
Apr 30, 12:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	36 min
Apr 30, 12:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Treutlen	28 min
Apr 30, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery	25 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.