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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 3, 2001Bartow County, Cobb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 6:38 PM EDT for Bartow County, Cobb County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bartow County, GA, Cobb County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 3, 6:38 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Emerson, GA	The Bartow county 911 center reported dime 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 032238
SVRATL

GAC015-067-032315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 635 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EMERSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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

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...FAND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3420 8468 3407 8483 3409 8473 3394 8472
          3408 8450 3410 8466

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, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	35 min
Jul 3, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pickens	30 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.