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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 393, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 19, 2005Greene County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2005, 6:12 PM EDT for Greene County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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: Aug 19, 2005, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2005, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greene County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1295 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 192212
SVRFFC
GAC133-192245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0393.050819T2212Z-050819T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
612 PM EDT FRI AUG 19 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 612 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND
  WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF      
  GREENSBORO...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

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

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 3361 8315 3353 8334 3338 8317 3346 8304

$$

KDF

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 192227
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
627 PM EDT FRI AUG 19 2005

GAC133-192245-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0393.000000T0000Z-050819T2245Z/
GREENE-
627 PM EDT FRI AUG 19 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY...

AT 618 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
LOCATED NEAR VEAZEY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF GREENSBORO...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED 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 3361 8315 3353 8334 3338 8317 3346 8304

$$

KDF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	32 min
Aug 19, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	37 min
Aug 19, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005 Every 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.