Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2001, 7:42 PM EDT for Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 262342 SVRATL GAC295-270015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 742 PM EDT TUE JUN 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 735 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHATTANOOGA VALLEY... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ROSSVILLE... FAIRVIEW...CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA VALLEY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU SEE WJIND 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 3488 8543 3476 8540 3476 8523 3500 8530
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, 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, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001Every 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.