Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 2001Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2001, 7:35 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Taylor County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 052336
SVRATL

GAC269-060015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 735 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HOWARD...
  MAUK...BUTLER AND REYNOLDS.

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 3241 8418 3249 8413 3254 8403 3257 8407
          3262 8407 3267 8435 3260 8440 3256 8440
          3254 8444 3247 8440

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	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette	38 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

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.