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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2005, 9:49 PM EST for Jasper County, Morgan County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 9:49 PM EST (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2005, 10:15 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jasper County, GA, Morgan County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 73 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 220252
SVRFFC
GAC159-211-220315-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0055.050222T0249Z-050222T0315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
949 PM EST MON FEB 21 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1015 PM EST
* AT 948 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED FARRAR
OD NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY AND PENNINGTON OF SOUTHWEST MORGAN COUNTY.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
GODFREY...FARRAR AND CENTENNIAL.
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 3319 8380 3322 8383 3330 8381 3334 8385
3343 8383 3349 8367 3360 8366 3354 8342
3342 8353 3318 8355 3314 8380
$$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, 9:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 45 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005Every 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.