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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2005, 11:03 PM EST for Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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, 11:03 PM EST (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2005, 11:30 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 220403 RRA SVRFFC GAC149-220430- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0065.050222T0403Z-050222T0430Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1103 PM EST MON FEB 21 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1130 PM EST * AT 1102 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SIMPSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FROLONA AND CENTRALHATCHEE. 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 3342 8527 3329 8525 3330 8497 3341 8501 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 220421 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1121 PM EST MON FEB 21 2005 GAC149-220430- /O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-050222T0430Z/ HEARD- 1121 PM EST MON FEB 21 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM EST FOR CENTRAL HEARD COUNTY... AT 1115 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CENTRALHATCHEE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOGANSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FRANKLIN. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3338 8527 3322 8523 3326 8497 3338 8501 $$
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, 10:02 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, 11:17 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.