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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 6:34 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 4 reports 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
- Feb 16, 2001, 6:34 PM EST (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Henry County, GA, Rockdale County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 6:38 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | The public reported trees and power lines down throughout the county. In Lawrenceville, a steel shed was blown off its foundation and landed on a fence |
| Feb 16, 6:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Countywide, GA | The De Kalb county 911 center reported trees and power lines down all across the county. Two trees were blown down on homes. In the Chamblee-Tucker area, winds were estimated at 70 to 80 mph. |
| Feb 16, 6:57 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Scarboroughs Xrds, GA | The Henry county 911 center reported trees and power lines down in the far northwest corner of the county in the Fairview subdivision. |
| Feb 16, 7:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Conyers, GA | A storm spotter reported that power lines and trees were blown down in Conyers. A local sheriff reported seeing a tornado in the area, but there was no confirmation of a tornado touchdown. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 162335 SVRATL GAC063-089-113-135-151-247-170015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 634 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 715 PM EST * AT 629 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH LOCATED FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF DULUTH TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEACHTREE CITY...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...TUCKER... SUWANEE...SUGAR HILL...STONE MOUNTAIN...STOCKBRIDGE...SNELLVILLE... SCOTTDALE...RIVERDALE...REDAN...PINE LAKE...PANTHERSVILLE...NORTH DECATUR...NORCROSS...MOUNTAIN PARK...MORROW...MCDONOUGH...LOVEJOY... LOCUST GROVE...LITHONIA...LILBURN...LAWRENCEVILLE...LAKEVIEW ESTATES...LAKE CITY...JONESBORO...IRONDALE...HAMPTON...GRESHAM PARK...FOREST PARK...FAYETTEVILLE...DUNWOODY...DULUTH...DORAVILLE... DECATUR...DACULA...CONYERS...CONLEY...CLARKSTON...CHAMBLEE... CANDLER-MCAFEE...BUFORD...BONANZA...BLACKSVILLE...BERKELEY LAKE... BELVEDERE PARK AND AVONDALE ESTATES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 4:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 23 min |
| Feb 16, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 46 min |
| Feb 16, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 46 min |
| Feb 16, 5:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 28 min |
| Feb 16, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 23 min |
| Feb 16, 6:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 6:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Heard | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 6:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 37 min |
| Feb 16, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton | 38 min |
| Feb 16, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 38 min |
| Feb 16, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Feb 16, 6:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 41 min |
| Feb 16, 6:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 37 min |
| Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 44 min |
| Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 44 min |
| Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 44 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.