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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 14, 2001Clayton County, DeKalb County, Henry County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 5:53 PM EDT for Clayton County, DeKalb County, Henry County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clayton County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Henry County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 6:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Stockbridge, GA	The Henry County 911 center reported nickel size hail and a few tree limbs blown down.

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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 142154
SVRATL

GAC063-089-151-142230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHWESTERN DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHWESTERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 548 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE CITY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
  NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  STOCKBRIDGE...PANTHERSVILLE...MORROW...LAKE CITY...JONESBORO...
  FOREST PARK...CONLEY AND BONANZA.

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 3372 8424 3370 8433 3364 8434 3364 8441
          3358 8438 3344 8435 3351 8409 3363 8418
          3369 8418

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, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene	40 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, 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.