Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2005, 7:37 PM EDT for Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2005, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fayette County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:38 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | 1 E Peachtree City, GA | DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 062337 SVRFFC GAC113-070000- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0355.050706T2337Z-050707T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 737 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 733 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PEACHTREE CITY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KENWOOD AND FAYETTEVILLE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. 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 3337 8460 3328 8443 3350 8436 3356 8450 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 062346 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 746 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005 GAC113-070000- /O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0355.000000T0000Z-050707T0000Z/ FAYETTE- 746 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR FAYETTE COUNTY... AT 744 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO INMAN...LEES MILL AND KENWOOD. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3337 8460 3328 8443 3350 8436 3356 8450 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 5:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 15 min |
| Jul 6, 5:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 6:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 6:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 22 min |
| Jul 6, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 18 min |
| Jul 6, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 37 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.