Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2005, 3:28 PM EST for Jasper County, Newton County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 3:28 PM EST (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2005, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jasper County, GA, Newton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 222028
SVRFFC
GAC159-217-222100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0097.050322T2028Z-050322T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
328 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 400 PM EST
* AT 325 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 MANSFIELD TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF MANSFIELD TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANSFIELD...AND MOVING EAST
AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHADY
DALE AND NEWBORN.
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
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 3354 8389 3343 8386 3333 8384 3338 8352
3349 8362 3361 8369
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 222049
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
348 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005
GAC159-217-222058-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0097.000000T0000Z-050322T2100Z/
JASPER-NEWTON-
348 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NEWTON AND JASPER COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF NEWTON AND JASPER COUNTIES
AND SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3354 8389 3343 8386 3333 8384 3338 8352
3349 8362 3361 8369
$$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, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 36 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, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 33 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.