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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 435, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 4, 2005Barrow County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 4, 2005, 4:54 PM EST for Barrow County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 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: Dec 4, 2005, 4:54 PM EST (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Dec 4, 2005, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barrow County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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.

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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 042154
SVRFFC
GAC013-042215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0435.051204T2154Z-051204T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
454 PM EST SUN DEC 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 453 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WINDER...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  STATHAM...RUSSELL...FORT YARGO STATE PARK AND AUBURN.

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 3392 8362 3393 8379 3399 8384 3410 8383
      3410 8379 3407 8376 3407 8374 3405 8371
      3404 8357 3396 8353

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 042208
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
505 PM EST SUN DEC 4 2005

GAC013-042215-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0435.000000T0000Z-051204T2215Z/
BARROW GA-
508 PM EST SUN DEC 4 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM EST 
FOR BARROW COUNTY...

AT 507 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED
HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STATHAM...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF
WINDER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.  THIS STORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS 
EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW SEVERE LIMITS BY 515 PM.  PEA-SIZED HAIL AND 
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH MAY STILL BE POSSIBLE IN BARROW AND JACKSON 
COUNTIES.

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 3395 8363 3398 8367 3402 8375 3410 8383
      3410 8379 3407 8376 3407 8374 3405 8371
      3404 8357 3396 8353

$$

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, 4:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	22 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.