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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Atlanta, GA
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 31 min |
| 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, 4:44 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
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.