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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 2001Meriwether County, Pike County, Spalding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2001, 6:22 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Pike County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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 5, 2001, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Spalding County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 20 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 052222
SVRATL

GAC199-231-255-052300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SPALDING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 620 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SUNNY SIDE TO LUTHERSVILLE...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...ZEBULON...
  WILLIAMSON...SUNNY SIDE...MOLENA...MEANSVILLE...LUTHERSVILLE...
  GRIFFIN...GAY...EXPERIMENT...AND CONCORD.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 3321 8483 3298 8466 3301 8428 3319 8424
          3319 8414 3325 8414 3330 8409 3334 8416
          3335 8434 3326 8443 3326 8449 3322 8451

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Floyd, Paulding, Polk32 min
Jul 5, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Douglas, Paulding34 min
Jul 5, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Fulton37 min
Jul 5, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup45 min
Jul 5, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Coweta, Fayette38 min
Jul 5, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard38 min
Jul 5, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry38 min
Jul 5, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Rockdale25 min
Jul 5, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton31 min
Jul 5, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalton39 min
Jul 5, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCUpson35 min
Jul 5, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaylor40 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.