Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 6:01 PM EST for Carroll County, Douglas County, Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2001, 6:01 PM EST (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Heard County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 6:10 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Douglasville, GA | A storm spotter, who estimated winds at 70 mph, reported damage to a gas station in Douglasville. The public reported that one tree was down and pieces of a tin roof were blown off a barn about halfway between Douglasville and Lithia Springs. Other reports o |
| Feb 16, 6:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Carrollton, GA | An amateur radio operator reported trees down on Georgia Highway 166 in Carrollton and Villa Rica. The public reported a large 50 foot billboard broken in half by the wind at exit 5 on Interstate 20 near Villa Rica. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
569 WUUS52 KFFC 162303 SVRATL GAC045-057-067-097-149-162330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 601 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 PM EST * AT 600 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 75 MPH LOCATED FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ACWORTH TO 14 MILES NORTH OF FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... WOODSTOCK...WALESKA...VILLA RICA...POWDER SPRINGS...MARIETTA...LITHIA SPRINGS...KENNESAW...HOLLY SPRINGS...FRANKLIN...FAIR OAKS...DOUGLASVILLE...CANTON...BALL GROUND...AUSTELL AND ACWORTH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 4:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 23 min |
| Feb 16, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 46 min |
| Feb 16, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 46 min |
| Feb 16, 5:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 28 min |
| Feb 16, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 23 min |
| Feb 16, 6:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 6:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 37 min |
| Feb 16, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton | 38 min |
| Feb 16, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 38 min |
| Feb 16, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Feb 16, 6:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale | 41 min |
| Feb 16, 6:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 41 min |
| Feb 16, 6:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 37 min |
| Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 44 min |
| Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 44 min |
| Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 44 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.