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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 15, 2001Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 5:01 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 15, 2001, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2001, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 871 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
871 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 152102
SVRATL

GAC209-309-152130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
501 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 457 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GLENWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MOUNT
VERNON...HIGGSTON...GLENWOOD AND AILEY.

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 3228 8271 3206 8275 3212 8247 3234 8242

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer, Murray46 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.