Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 11:36 AM EST for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2001, 11:36 AM EST (16:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Stewart 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 191637 SVRATL GAC259-191715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1136 AM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1215 PM EST * AT 1130 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUMPKIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 80 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RICHLAND AND LUMPKIN, RANDALL AND WESTVILLE. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3204 8495 3192 8481 3208 8463 3223 8473
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 32 min |
| Jan 19, 12:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 51 min |
| Jan 19, 12:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taylor | 39 min |
| Jan 19, 12:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 12:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 12:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 12:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 23 min |
| Jan 19, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 36 min |
| Jan 19, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 29 min |
| Jan 19, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson, Washington | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 24 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.