Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 2:54 PM EST for Glascock County, Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2001, 2:54 PM EST (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Glascock County, GA, Washington County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 3:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Gibson, GA | The Glascock county 911 center reported trees down in the northwest part of the county near Five Points. In addition, the roof of one home was damaged. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 |
| Jan 19, 1:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 191955 SVRATL GAC125-303-192030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 254 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GLASCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 330 PM EST * AT 248 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DEEPSTEP...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DEEPSTEP... WARTHEN AND MITCHELL. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXP-ECTED 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 39 min |
| 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.