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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 383, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 5, 2005White County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2005, 7:31 PM EDT for White County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 4 reports 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
Aug 5, 2005, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County White County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 5, 7:35 PM EDTTSTM WND GST 654 S Cleveland, GA
Aug 5, 7:35 PM EDTHAIL 0.754 S Cleveland, GA
Aug 5, 7:50 PM EDTHAIL 11 Sw Cleveland, GA
Aug 5, 7:50 PM EDTHAIL 16 W Cleveland, GA

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 2005-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 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 2005-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1289 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 052331
SVRFFC
GAC311-060000-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0383.050805T2331Z-050806T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
731 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 727 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 2 MILES
  SOUTHWEST CLEVELAND...AND MOVING WEST NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

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

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 3446 8364 3461 8359 3468 8384 3452 8390

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS52 KFFC 052345
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
743 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005

GAC311-060000-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0383.000000T0000Z-050806T0000Z/
WHITE-
743 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR
WHITE COUNTY...

AT 742 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
CENTERED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLEVELAND...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST 
OF DAHLONEGA...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.

AT 735 PM EDT...PENNY SIZE HAIL AND 65 MPH ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS 
WERE REPORTED 4 MILES SOUTH OF CLEVELAND.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF SOUTHWEST WHITE COUNTY.

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 3449 8374 3461 8370 3462 8387 3452 8390

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton, Gwinnett31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.