Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 8:26 PM EDT for Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 4, 2001, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2001, 8:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dade County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 050027 SVRATL GAC083-050055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 826 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 855 PM EDT * AT 825 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TRENTON. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. 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 3489 8567 3474 8548 3497 8538 3499 8558
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 21 min |
| Jun 4, 9:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 22 min |
| Jun 5, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Macon, Peach | 34 min |
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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.