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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 413, NWS Atlanta, GA

October 21, 2005Paulding County, Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 21, 2005, 5:47 PM EDT for Paulding County, Polk 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: Oct 21, 2005, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Oct 21, 2005, 6:25 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -266 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1051 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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 212148
SVRFFC
GAC223-233-212230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0413.051021T2147Z-051021T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
547 PM EDT FRI OCT 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  EASTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 540 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES
  EAST OF ROCKMART...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO VAN
  WERT AND BRASWELL.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND LARGE 
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY 
FROM WINDOWS

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 3410 8506 3395 8507 3396 8474 3408 8475

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 212225
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
622 PM EDT FRI OCT 21 2005

GAC223-233-212232-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0413.000000T0000Z-051021T2230Z/
PAULDING GA-POLK GA-
622 PM EDT FRI OCT 21 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN POLK AND NORTHERN
PAULDING COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE AREA...BUT HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE NOT 
EXPECTED TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND. SOME HEAVY RAIN
IS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS UNTIL AROUND 7 PM.

LAT...LON 3410 8506 3395 8507 3396 8474 3408 8475

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 21, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	36 min
Oct 21, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	22 min
Oct 21, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	26 min
Oct 21, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	36 min
Oct 21, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.