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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 16, 2001Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 4:52 PM EST for Polk 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: Feb 16, 2001, 4:52 PM EST (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2001, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Polk County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 16, 5:25 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, GA	The Polk county Emergency Management Director reported that numerous trees were blown down on power lines and phone lines throughout the county.

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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 162153
SVRATL
GAC233-162215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
452 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 351 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH        
  LOCATED 37 MILES WEST OF CEDARTOWN...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 65   
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ROCKMART...  
  CEDARTOWN AND ARAGON.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

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 3401 8540 3391 8538 3391 8505 3396 8503
          3397 8499 3405 8496 3408 8492 3409 8496
          3410 8511 3409 8540

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk	46 min
Feb 16, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	46 min
Feb 16, 5:47 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Paulding, Polk	28 min
Feb 16, 5:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	23 min
Feb 16, 6:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb	29 min
Feb 16, 6:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Heard	29 min
Feb 16, 6:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas	37 min
Feb 16, 6:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton	38 min
Feb 16, 6:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	38 min
Feb 16, 6:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett	33 min
Feb 16, 6:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale	41 min
Feb 16, 6:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	41 min
Feb 16, 6:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	37 min
Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall, Jackson	44 min
Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Walton	44 min
Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.