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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 21, 2001Butts County, Georgia

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 21, 4:20 PM EDTHail 0.75Jackson, GAThe 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 852 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 11:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair, Wheeler32 min
Jun 21, 12:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery, Toombs27 min
Jun 21, 1:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Macon37 min
Jun 21, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Twiggs33 min
Jun 21, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly35 min
Jun 21, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Jones45 min
Jun 21, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens49 min
Jun 21, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington43 min
Jun 21, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford, Taylor27 min
Jun 21, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Polk27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.