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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 2001Hall County, White County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 10:18 PM EDT for Hall County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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, 10:18 PM EDT (02:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2001, 10:40 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Hall County, GA, White County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 050219
SVRATL

GAC139-311-050240-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1018 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1040 PM EDT

* AT 1015 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLERMONT...MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CLERMONT.

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 3456 8381 3438 8380 3438 8367 3458 8366

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, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	21 min
Jun 4, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	27 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

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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.