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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 10, 2005Chattooga County, Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2005, 7:33 PM EDT for Chattooga County, Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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: May 10, 2005, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2005, 8:18 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Chattooga County, GA, Floyd County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 102333
SVRFFC
GAC055-115-110015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0268.050510T2333Z-050511T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
733 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 727 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  CHATTOOGAVILLE...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG 
  THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MENLO ALSO MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

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

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 3455 8538 3452 8550 3412 8542 3420 8524

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 102351
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
751 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

GAC055-110001-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0268.000000T0000Z-050511T0015Z/
CHATTOOGA-
751 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CHATTOOGA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.

IF YOU SAW WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...CALL 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3430 8538 3430 8546 3410 8541 3409 8531

$$

GAC115-110015-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0268.000000T0000Z-050511T0015Z/
FLOYD-
751 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR
FLOYD COUNTY...

AT 747 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAVE SPRING...
OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF ROME...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF WESTERN FLOYD 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 3430 8538 3430 8546 3410 8541 3409 8531

$$

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 110018
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
817 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

GAC115-110027-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0268.000000T0000Z-050511T0015Z/
FLOYD-
817 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN FLOYD COUNTY
HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 815 PM EDT...

THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY AND INTO CHEROKEE COUNTY 
ALABAMA. 

IF YOU SAW WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE
CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3430 8538 3430 8546 3410 8541 3409 8531

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Putnam	25 min
May 10, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	29 min
May 10, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	33 min
May 10, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin	30 min
May 10, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Washington	32 min
May 10, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	31 min
May 10, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	33 min
May 10, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	45 min
May 10, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	42 min
May 10, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	51 min
May 10, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	26 min
May 10, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Pulaski	28 min
May 10, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	34 min
May 10, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	29 min
May 10, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Whitfield	50 min
May 10, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas	24 min
May 10, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Monroe	24 min

Nearby

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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.