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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 22, 2001Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2001, 10:26 AM EDT for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 22, 2001, 10:26 AM EDT (14:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2001, 11:00 AM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 2001-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 416 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°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 2001-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 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
416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 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 221427
SVRATL

GAC313-221500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1026 AM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1100 AM EDT

* AT 1018 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DALTON THE SEVERE         
  THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...VARNELL...   
  TUNNEL HILL AND DALTON.

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 3498 8484 3463 8494 3462 8504 3475 8510
          3E490 8501

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall28 min
Jun 21, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCStewart25 min
Jun 21, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade, Walker23 min
Jun 21, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly37 min
Jun 21, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCStewart26 min
Jun 22, 10:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin, Gilmer, Murray36 min
Jun 22, 12:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Douglas, Paulding29 min
Jun 22, 12:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Jackson51 min
Jun 22, 12:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks51 min
Jun 22, 1:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas, Paulding44 min
Jun 22, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether51 min
Jun 22, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston37 min
Jun 22, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee35 min
Jun 22, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry, Newton52 min
Jun 22, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Jackson42 min
Jun 22, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan, Oconee40 min
Jun 22, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke40 min
Jun 22, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Madison, Oglethorpe33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.