Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 3:20 PM EDT for Greene County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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 14, 2001, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Greene County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Union Pt, GA | A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier reported dime size hail while on his route. |
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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 299 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
- 169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 141921 SVRATL GAC133-142000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 320 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 318 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOODVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WOODVILLE... UNION POINT...SILOAM AND GREENSBORO. 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 3370 8306 3371 8322 3340 8317 3351 8299
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 25 min |
| Jun 14, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Jones, Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 39 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.