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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 10:58 PM EDT for Gwinnett 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 the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2001, 10:58 PM EDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2001, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gwinnett County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
482 WUUS52 KFFC 290300 SVRATL GAC135-290330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1058 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT * AT 1053 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SUGAR HILL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SUGAR HILL AND DACULA. * THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DIME TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL IN WESTERN GWINNETT COUNTY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 3410 8411 3399 8401 3398 8386 3410 8385
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, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.