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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 2001Cobb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2001, 3:25 PM EDT for Cobb County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 26, 2001, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cobb County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 1165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 261925
SVRATL
GAC067-262000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
325 PM EDT TUE JUN 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KENNESAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...KENNESAW AND ACWORTH.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 3403 8473 3390 8465 3404 8447 3409 8456

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 11:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	31 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

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.