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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 14, 2001Dawson County, Lumpkin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 6:21 PM EDT for Dawson County, Lumpkin County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dawson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 1921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -13 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 142222
SVRATL

GAC085-187-142300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WESTERN LUMPKIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 619 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL LUMPKIN COUNTY...
  NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL WESTERN
  LUMPKIN COUNTY AND RURAL NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY INCLUDING THE
  AMICALOLA FALLS STATE PARK.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3466 8413 3456 8427 3458 8434 3448 8432
          3448 8404 3464 8404

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, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Henry	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.