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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 2001Clayton County, Coweta County, Fayette County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2001, 5:52 PM EDT for Clayton County, Coweta County, Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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 5, 2001, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clayton County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Fayette County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 5, 6:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockbridge, GA	The Henry county 911 center reported that four trees were blown down.

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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 16 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 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 052153
SVRATL

GAC063-077-113-149-151-052230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
552 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 551 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM CONLEY TO FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...WOOLSEY...
  TYRONE...STOCKBRIDGE...SHARPSBURG...SENOIA...RIVERDALE...PEACHTREE 
  CITY...NEWNAN...MORROW...MORELAND...MCDONOUGH...LOVEJOY...LAKE 
  CITY...JONESBORO...HAMPTON...FRANKLIN...FOREST PARK...FAYETTEVILLE...
  CENTRALHATCHEE AND BONANZA.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3326 8526 3318 8523 3323 8492 3327 8452
          3347 8411 3351 8405 3357 8415 3364 8420
          3365 8445 3358 8444 3350 8458 3350 8478
          3333 8526

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd, Paulding, Polk	32 min
Jul 5, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Paulding	34 min
Jul 5, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton	37 min
Jul 5, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	45 min
Jul 5, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	38 min
Jul 5, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry	38 min
Jul 5, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Rockdale	25 min
Jul 5, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	31 min
Jul 5, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Spalding	38 min
Jul 5, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	39 min
Jul 5, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	35 min
Jul 5, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	40 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.