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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 337, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 2005Clarke County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2005, 9:14 PM EDT for Clarke County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 30, 2005, 9:14 PM EDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2005, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clarke County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 1309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -14 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 010116
SVRFFC
GAC059-010145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0337.050701T0114Z-050701T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
914 PM EDT THU JUN 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 909 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OF       
  AROUND 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ATHENS...AND MOVING    
  EAST AT 10 MPH.

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

IN ADDITION TO 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... 
CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3405 8340 3395 8350 3387 8326 3402 8330

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	27 min
Jul 1, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	24 min
Jul 1, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	38 min
Jul 1, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	46 min
Jul 1, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	46 min
Jul 1, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	51 min
Jul 1, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oconee	46 min
Jul 1, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette, Fulton	27 min
Jul 1, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	25 min
Jul 1, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	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.