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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 6, 2005Banks County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2005, 7:53 PM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Banks County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 062352
SVRFFC
GAC011-070045-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0328.050606T2353Z-050607T0045Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 743 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HOMER...AND
  MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

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

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 3418 8345 3432 8332 3449 8353 3431 8370

$$

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, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	16 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

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.