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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 2001Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 9:01 PM EDT for Pike 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, 9:01 PM EDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2001, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pike County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2437 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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 050101
SVRATL
GAC231-050130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
901 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 854 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MOLENA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ZEBULON...
WILLIAMSON...MOLENA...MEANSVILLE AND CONCORD.

* THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS.

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 3298 8452 3302 8428 3318 8427 3320 8446

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon25 min
Jun 4, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow24 min
Jun 4, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade29 min
Jun 4, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa, Walker, Whitfield39 min
Jun 4, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson41 min
Jun 4, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether26 min
Jun 4, 9:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee21 min
Jun 4, 9:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall27 min
Jun 4, 10:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall, White22 min
Jun 5, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Pike, Spalding28 min
Jun 5, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Macon, Peach34 min

Nearby

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