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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 2001Crawford County, Peach County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2001, 8:12 PM EDT for Crawford County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crawford County, GA, Peach County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 5, 8:16 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Roberta, GA	The Crawford county 911 center reported that two trees and one power line 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -38 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 060012
SVRATL

GAC079-225-060100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  PEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 810 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROBERTA TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  FORT VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...ROBERTA...
  FORT VALLEY AND BYRON.

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 3244 8380 3250 8379 3250 8375 3253 8374
          3253 8371 3267 8371 3276 8384 3277 8408
          3257 8406 3247 8391

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	26 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.