Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2001, 2:10 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2001, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2001, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Columbus, GA | The public 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 221810 SVRATL GAC053-215-221845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 210 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA MUSCOGEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 207 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FORT BENNING SOUTH...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...FORT BENNING SOUTH...CUSSETA AND COLUMBUS. 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 3257 8507 3225 8498 3227 8469 3256 8472
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 23 min |
| Jun 21, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 37 min |
| Jun 21, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 10:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 10:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 12:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Paulding | 29 min |
| Jun 22, 12:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 12:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 37 min |
| Jun 22, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton | 52 min |
| Jun 22, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Madison, Oglethorpe | 33 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.