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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 19, 2005Crisp County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2005, 3:55 PM EDT for Crisp County, Georgia. It was in force for 20 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 19, 2005, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2005, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crisp County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 623 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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 191956
SVRFFC
GAC081-192015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0273.050519T1955Z-050519T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
355 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 352 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS    
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TREMONT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 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 3202 8374 3191 8371 3191 8361 3203 8361

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 192015
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
414 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005

GAC081-192024-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0273.000000T0000Z-050519T2015Z/
CRISP-
414 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CRISP COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 415 PM EDT...

IF YOU ARE AWARE OF ANY WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT 
FLOODING WITH THIS STORM...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL 
FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3202 8374 3191 8371 3191 8361 3203 8361

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	22 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005 Every 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.