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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 2, 2005Peach County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2005, 4:43 PM EDT for Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2005, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Peach County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 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 022043
SVRFFC
GAC225-022130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0313.050602T2043Z-050602T2130Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 440 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT VALLEY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10
  MPH.

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

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

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 3255 8391 3245 8384 3252 8371 3263 8373

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 022058
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
457 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2005

GAC225-022130-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0313.000000T0000Z-050602T2130Z/
PEACH-
457 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR 
PEACH COUNTY...

AT 455 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MIAMI VALLEY AND FORT VALLEY...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

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

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL. SEEK SHELTER 
NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY 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 3255 8391 3245 8384 3252 8371 3263 8373

$$

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 022116
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
515 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2005

GAC225-022130-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0313.000000T0000Z-050602T2130Z/
PEACH-
515 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR 
PEACH COUNTY...

AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MIAMI VALLEY AND NEAR FORT VALLEY... 
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES HAS BEEN REPORTED IN FORT VALLEY WITH 
THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE IMMEDIATE 
ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

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 3255 8391 3245 8384 3252 8371 3263 8373

$$

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 022130
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
526 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2005

GAC225-022136-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0313.000000T0000Z-050602T2130Z/
PEACH-
526 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN PEACH COUNTY EXPIRES
AT 530 PM EDT...

AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS OVER THE COUNTY WAS WEAKENING BELOW 
SEVERE LIMITS AND THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HEAVY 
RAIN...LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EASTERN 
PEACH COUNTY THROUGH 545 PM EDT.

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

LAT...LON 3255 8391 3245 8384 3252 8371 3263 8373

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp	23 min
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, 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.