Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 4:10 PM EDT for Butts County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 21, 2001, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2001, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butts County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 4:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Jackson, GA | The Butts County 911 center reported dime size hail. |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 212010 SVRATL GAC035-212045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 410 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTTS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 358 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF JENKINSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... JENKINSBURG...JACKSON AND FLOVILLA. 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 SIGNIFjICANT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 2:47 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, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 27 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.