Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 3:57 PM EDT for Catoosa County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 25, 2001, 3:57 PM EDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Catoosa County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Ringgold, GA | The public reported quarter size hail near Sugartown. |
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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
220 WUUS52 KFFC 251959 SVRATL GAC047-252030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 357 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 355 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STATIONARY LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RINGGOLD TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RINGGOLD. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...RINGGOLD. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3485 8524 3482 8504 3491 8498 3492 8522
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 19 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.