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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 2001Houston County, Macon County, Peach County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2001, 7:11 PM EDT for Houston County, Macon County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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: Jun 5, 2001, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Houston County, GA, Macon County, GA, Peach County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 7:11 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry, GA	The Houston County Emergency Management Director reported that a tin roof was blown off a building two miles west of Perry and a few limbs were blown off trees in Perry.

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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 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 052311
SVRATL
GAC153-193-225-052345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
711 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN PEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN MACON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 702 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERRY...MOVING NORTH AT 10
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PERRY AND
FORT VALLEY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

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 3231 8397 3230 8376 3259 8369 3259 8392

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 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

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.