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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 4, 2005, 4:08 PM EST for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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
- Dec 4, 2005, 4:08 PM EST (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 4, 2005, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 4:25 PM EST | HAIL 1 | Alpharetta, GA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 2:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 042108
SVRFFC
GAC121-042130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0430.051204T2108Z-051204T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
408 PM EST SUN DEC 4 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 430 PM EST
* AT 404 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROSWELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ALPHARETTA.
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT 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 3397 8436 3411 8442 3414 8433 3414 8426
3410 8425 3405 8412 3401 8419 3401 8424
3396 8428 3397 8433 3395 8438
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 042129
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
430 PM EST SUN DEC 4 2005
GAC121-042139-
/O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0430.000000T0000Z-051204T2130Z/
FULTON GA-
430 PM EST SUN DEC 4 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 430 PM EST...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST SUNDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3397 8436 3411 8442 3414 8433 3414 8426
3410 8425 3405 8412 3401 8419 3401 8424
3396 8428 3397 8433 3395 8438
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 4:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 34 min |
| Dec 4, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 32 min |
| Dec 4, 3:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 39 min |
| Dec 4, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 35 min |
| Dec 4, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 37 min |
| Dec 4, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 28 min |
| Dec 4, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 22 min |
| Dec 4, 4:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 42 min |
| Dec 4, 4:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 27 min |
| Dec 4, 4:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 41 min |
| Dec 4, 4:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 24 min |
| Dec 4, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 34 min |
| Dec 4, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 31 min |
| Dec 4, 4:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 27 min |
| Dec 4, 4:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 25 min |
| Dec 4, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 21 min |
| Dec 4, 5:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 25 min |
| Dec 4, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 36 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.