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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 1, 2005Towns County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2005, 4:37 PM EDT for Towns County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
Jul 1, 2005, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2005, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Towns County, GA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 856 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
856 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 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 012037
SVRFFC
GAC281-012115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0340.050701T2037Z-050701T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
437 PM EDT FRI JUL 1 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 432 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  YOUNG HARRIS...AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  PRESLEY...HIAWASSEE AND ALEXANDERS MILL.

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 3497 8394 3481 8368 3495 8359 3499 8378

$$

RAB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 9:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke31 min
Jul 1, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks27 min
Jul 1, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin24 min
Jul 1, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton46 min
Jul 1, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton46 min
Jul 1, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta51 min
Jul 1, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCOconee46 min
Jul 1, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette, Fulton27 min
Jul 1, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalton25 min
Jul 1, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.