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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 14, 2001Walton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 4:50 PM EDT for Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 14, 2001, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Walton County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 296 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1301 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 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
1301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-40 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.

392 
WUUS52 KFFC 142052
SVRATL
GAC297-142115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
450 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WALTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 448 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF MONROE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MONROE AND   
  GOOD HOPE.

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 3383 8370 3371 8375 3366 8364 3382 8353

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCOglethorpe34 min
Jun 14, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene40 min
Jun 14, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWarren23 min
Jun 14, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper33 min
Jun 14, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett, Walton39 min
Jun 14, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Henry37 min
Jun 14, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Lumpkin39 min
Jun 14, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale40 min
Jun 14, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Bibb, Jones, Wilkinson35 min
Jun 14, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas, Fulton39 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.