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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 2001Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 11:44 PM EDT for Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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: Jun 25, 2001, 11:44 PM EDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2001, 12:15 AM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Wilkinson County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 12:00 AM EDT	Hail 1.25	Mc Intyre, GA	The Wilkinson County 911 center reported dime, to quarter, to half-dollar 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 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.

792 
WUUS52 KFFC 260343
SVRATL
GAC319-260415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1144 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1215 AM EDT

* AT 1133 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF IRWINTON...MOVING EAST AT 15
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TOOMSBORO...
MCINTYRE AND IRWINTON.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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
Jun 26, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	35 min
Jun 26, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	33 min
Jun 26, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	36 min
Jun 26, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	42 min
Jun 26, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	33 min
Jun 26, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray	31 min

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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.