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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 2001Cherokee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 9:24 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 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, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2001, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cherokee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 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 050126
SVRATL
GAC057-050145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 920 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE
  COUNTY TO SOUTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BALL
  GROUND.

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 3438 8435 3417 8440 3421 8427 3438 8427

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, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	29 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, 9:48 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.