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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 6, 2005Harris County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2005, 2:23 PM EDT for Harris County, Georgia. It was in force for 16 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 6, 2005, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 2:39 PM EDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harris County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 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 061823
SVRFFC
GAC145-061915-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0322.050606T1823Z-050606T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
223 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 220 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. 
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PINE MOUNTAIN
  TO CATAULA...AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WAVERLY HALL AND PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT 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.

HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE A THREAT WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES VERY 
SLOWLY. STREETS...ROADS...AND SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY BECOME
FLOODED.

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 3285 8507 3259 8487 3269 8467 3286 8483

$$

RAB

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 061839
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
238 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005

GAC145-061848-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0322.000000T0000Z-050606T1915Z/
HARRIS-
238 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005

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

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SEVERE. 
HOWEVER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND 
SMALL HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.  IN ADDITION...HEAVY 
RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SLOW MOVING STORM MAY RESULT IN SOME 
STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE AREA.

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 3285 8507 3259 8487 3269 8467 3286 8483

$$

RAB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray	27 min
Jun 6, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Muscogee	35 min
Jun 6, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	30 min
Jun 6, 1:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	36 min
Jun 6, 4:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	64 min
Jun 6, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	36 min
Jun 6, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	46 min
Jun 6, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	24 min
Jun 6, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	32 min
Jun 6, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	43 min
Jun 6, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	52 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.