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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2005, 10:02 PM EST for Jefferson County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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, 10:02 PM EST (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2005, 10:45 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jefferson 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 220304 SVRFFC GAC163-220345- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0056.050222T0302Z-050222T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1002 PM EST MON FEB 21 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1045 PM EST * AT 1001 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 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WRENS TO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANGE. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO AVERA...GRANGE AND LOUISVILLE. 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 3321 8255 3309 8269 3283 8233 3307 8226 $$
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, 9:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan | 26 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.