Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 7:36 PM EDT for Douglas County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Douglas County, GA, Fulton County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Union City, GA | The Fulton County 911 center reported dime to nickel size hail in Union City. |
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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 142336
SVRATL
GAC097-121-150015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
736 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT
* AT 734 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF PALMETTO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
5 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...UNION CITY...
PALMETTO AND FAIRBURN.
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 3366 8484 3351 8471 3351 8458 3360 8447
3377 8469The 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, 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 |
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.