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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 28, 2001Clayton County, Henry County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 10:37 PM EDT for Clayton County, Henry County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2001, 10:37 PM EDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clayton County, GA, Henry County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 10:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockbridge, GA	The public reported several trees and large limbs down.

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
May 28, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 764 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 290238
SVRATL
GAC063-151-290300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1037 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 1033 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LOVEJOY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  STOCKBRIDGE...MORROW...MCDONOUGH...LOVEJOY...LOCUST 
  GROVE...JONESBORO...IRONDALE...HAMPTON...BONANZA AND BLACKSVILLE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND 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 1 )8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3348 8394 3350 8403 3355 8413 3361 8418
          3357 8440 3345 8437 3337 8437 3333 8408

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	34 min
May 28, 8:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee	29 min
May 28, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	23 min
May 28, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	30 min
May 28, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	23 min
May 28, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Hall	33 min
May 28, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	30 min
May 28, 10:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	32 min
May 29, 7:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.