Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 24, 2001Dade County, Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 7:37 PM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
May 24, 2001, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 242337
SVRATL
GAC083-295-250015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
737 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  NORTHERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 733 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...MOVING EAST AT
  50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TRENTON...
  LINWOOD...LA FAYETTE...CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA VALLEY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM! IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR LARGE DAMAGING HAIL AND VIOLENT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IF
NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

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 z6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3491 8529 3492 8536 3491 8544 3491 8559
          3466 8554 3472 8516 3477 8516 3478 8522
          3484 8522 3486 8528

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson35 min
May 24, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Floyd37 min
May 24, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga52 min
May 24, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Pickens44 min
May 24, 6:31 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCCherokee, Dawson, Forsyth44 min
May 24, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Polk23 min
May 24, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer, Gordon36 min
May 24, 6:54 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCHall36 min
May 24, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett32 min
May 24, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb32 min
May 24, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.