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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 21, 2001Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 2:26 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 21, 2001, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Laurens County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -12 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 211826
SVRATL
GAC175-211915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
226 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 221 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DUDLEY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...EAST
  DUBLIN...DUDLEY AND DUBLIN.

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 3259 8314 3250 8316 3248 8280 3265 8281

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 11:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	32 min
Jun 21, 12:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	27 min
Jun 21, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Macon	37 min
Jun 21, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	33 min
Jun 21, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	35 min
Jun 21, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones	45 min
Jun 21, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	43 min
Jun 21, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Taylor	27 min
Jun 21, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	35 min
Jun 21, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001 Every 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.