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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 14, 20014 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 7:25 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Jones County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 287 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1622 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
1622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 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.

266 
WUUS52 KFFC 142326
SVRATL
GAC009-021-169-319-150000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 724 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAYNE TO 9
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOOMSBORO...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  TOOMSBORO...PAYNE...MCINTYRE...MACON...IVEY...IRWINTON...GRAY 
  AND GORDON.

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 3274 8296 3263 8316 3274 8332 3290 8340
          3284 8352 3276 8357 3285 8384 3296 8369
          3307 8369 3305 8315 3296 8308 3286 8305

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, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalton25 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, 7:36 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.