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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 2001Gilmer County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 1:15 PM EDT for Gilmer County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 25, 2001, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2001, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Gilmer County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

124 
WUUS52 KFFC 251716
SVRATL
GAC123-251745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
115 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 110 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF EAST ELLIJAY THE SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ELLIJAY AND  
  EAST ELLIJAY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF UP TO ONE OT 
TWO INCHES 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 3483 8450 3467 8461 3454 8439 3474 8425

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	19 min
Jun 25, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa	33 min
Jun 25, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	24 min
Jun 25, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	28 min
Jun 25, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001 Every 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.