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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 21, 2001Washington County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 2:47 PM EDT for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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, 2:47 PM EDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2001, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Washington County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 211847
SVRATL
GAC303-211930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 244 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF TENNILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SOUTHERN
  SANDERSVILLE...TENNILLE AND RIDDLEVILLE.

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 3295 8301 3286 8300 3283 8265 3299 8266

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, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	49 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.