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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 3, 2001Gordon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 4:25 PM EDT for Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: Jul 3, 2001, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Gordon County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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
Jul 3, 4:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Calhoun, GA	The Gordon county 911 center reported that three trees were blown down. One of the downed trees was located one mile north of Calhoun and the other three miles southwest of Calhoun.

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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 032025
SVRATL

GAC129-032100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 420 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RESACA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RESACA...
RANGER...FAIRMOUNT AND CALHOUN.

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 76 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3460 8506 3444 8505 3442 8469 3457 8468

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, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	24 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

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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.