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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 5:14 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. 3 reports 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, 5:14 PM EST (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 5:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | The Haralson county Emergency Management Director and the Haralson Gateway Beacon newspaper reported extensive damage throughout the county caused by strong thunderstorm winds. On Estavanko Loop, outside Buchanan, a tree crashed through the residence of a hom |
| 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. |
| Feb 16, 6:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 69 E | Dallas, GA | The public reported several large pine trees snapped off in Dallas and trees were down on Georgia Highway 92 at Hiram and were blocking traffic in the area. An amateur radio operator estimated winds of 80 mph three miles west of Dallas with debris noted in th |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 162217 COR
SVRATL
GAC045-115-143-223-233-162300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
516 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
WESTERN PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 600 PM EST
* AT 508 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH
LOCATED FROM 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAVE SPRING TO 35 MILES WEST OF
BOWDON...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...TEMPLE...
TALLAPOOSA...ROME...ROCKMART...LINDALE...CEDARTOWN...CAVE SPRING...
CARROLLTON...BUCHANAN...BREMEN...BOWDON AND ARAGON.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.
WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK
DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW.
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 8543 3370 8533 3347 8529 3350 8505
3391 8486 3409 8496 3409 8504 3435 8506The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 4:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 23 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
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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.