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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2005, 9:45 PM EST for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 21, 2005, 9:45 PM EST (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2005, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 904 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 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
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 220245 SVRFFC GAC303-220330- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0054.050222T0245Z-050222T0330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 945 PM EST MON FEB 21 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1030 PM EST * AT 943 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WARTHEN TO WARTHEN...AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RIDDLEVILLE AND DAVISBORO. 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 3325 8278 3312 8290 3283 8260 3304 8253 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 7:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 28 min |
| Feb 21, 7:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 45 min |
| Feb 21, 7:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 7:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 24 min |
| Feb 21, 7:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 7:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 38 min |
| Feb 21, 7:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe | 50 min |
| Feb 21, 8:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 29 min |
| Feb 21, 8:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 30 min |
| Feb 21, 8:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 37 min |
| Feb 21, 8:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 37 min |
| Feb 21, 8:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 30 min |
| Feb 21, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 40 min |
| Feb 21, 8:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 8:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 23 min |
| Feb 21, 9:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 37 min |
| Feb 21, 9:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 26 min |
| Feb 21, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 25 min |
| Feb 21, 9:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 9:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan | 26 min |
| Feb 21, 10:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 10:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 10:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 37 min |
| Feb 21, 10:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 27 min |
| Feb 21, 10:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 26 min |
| Feb 21, 10:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 25 min |
| Feb 21, 10:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 46 min |
| Feb 21, 10:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 18 min |
| Feb 21, 11:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 42 min |
| Feb 21, 11:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 27 min |
| Feb 21, 11:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 11:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton | 52 min |
| Feb 21, 11:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 34 min |
| Feb 21, 11:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 11:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 12:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 12:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 1:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 50 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.