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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 2, 2005Crisp County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2005, 2:37 PM EDT for Crisp County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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: Jun 2, 2005, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2005, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 23 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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 021837
SVRFFC
GAC081-021900-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0310.050602T1837Z-050602T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
237 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 233 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WENONA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO   
HATLEY AND INTERSTATE 75 BETWEEN EXIT 92 AND 101.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

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 3188 8385 3180 8380 3183 8361 3197 8361

$$

JD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Muscogee	26 min
Jun 2, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Muscogee	35 min
Jun 2, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	47 min
Jun 2, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Treutlen	35 min
Jun 2, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	45 min
Jun 2, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	41 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.