Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2005, 2:54 PM EST for Newton County, Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 22, 2005, 2:54 PM EST (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2005, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Newton County, GA, Rockdale County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 10:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 221954
SVRFFC
GAC217-247-222030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0094.050322T1955Z-050322T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
255 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 330 PM EST
* AT 250 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES WEST OF CONYERS TO 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONYERS TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONYERS...AND
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
PORTERDALE...OXFORD AND COVINGTON.
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 3365 8420 3355 8410 3345 8401 3345 8383
3360 8386 3374 8392
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 222020
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
320 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005
GAC247-222030-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0094.000000T0000Z-050322T2030Z/
ROCKDALE-
320 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ROCKDALE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
LAT...LON 3361 8400 3355 8402 3341 8388 3348 8372
3362 8377 3373 8390
$$
GAC217-222030-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0094.000000T0000Z-050322T2030Z/
NEWTON-
320 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM EST FOR
NEWTON COUNTY...
AT 315 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM OXFORD TO PORTERDALE TO 10
MILES SOUTH OF PORTERDALE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CONYERS TO
COVINGTON TO 9 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MANSFIELD.
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 3361 8400 3355 8402 3341 8388 3348 8372
3362 8377 3373 8390
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 11:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 40 min |
| Mar 22, 11:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 11:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 66 min |
| Mar 22, 12:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 24 min |
| Mar 22, 12:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 12:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 57 min |
| Mar 22, 12:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 23 min |
| Mar 22, 1:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 37 min |
| Mar 22, 1:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 1:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 1:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 35 min |
| Mar 22, 2:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 29 min |
| Mar 22, 3:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 27 min |
| Mar 22, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 3:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Newton | 32 min |
| Mar 22, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 33 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.