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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 31, 2001Douglas County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2001, 8:44 PM EDT for Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 31, 2001, 8:44 PM EDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2001, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Douglas County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 31, 9:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Mc Whorter, GA	An amateur radio operator reported dime size hail along highway 166 near the Carroll county border west of McWhorter. The Douglas county 911 center reported that a tree was blown down in Douglasville.

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 31, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 1188 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 010045
SVRATL

GAC097-010115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
844 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 839 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF DOUGLASVILLE...MOVING  EAST 
  AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DOUGLASVILLE.
  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 3370 8492 3357 8491 3370 8462 3380 8470

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	31 min
May 31, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	33 min
May 31, 9:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	44 min
Jun 1, 12:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	35 min
Jun 1, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	23 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.