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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 3, 2001Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 3:51 PM EDT for Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 3, 2001, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2001, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 24 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), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1492 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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.

630 
WUUS52 KFFC 031951
SVRATL
GAC295-032015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
351 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 349 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF LA FAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LINWOOD AND
LA FAYETTE.

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.

LAT...LON 3464 8550 3460 8512 3470 8507 3482 8526

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	30 min
Jul 2, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	32 min
Jul 3, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	33 min
Jul 3, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	35 min
Jul 3, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pickens	30 min
Jul 3, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cobb	37 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.