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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 282, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 2001Wilkes County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2001, 8:49 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wilkes County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 060051
SVRATL

GAC317-060115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 840 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL WILKES COUNTY...MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE WASHINGTON AND AONIA.

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 3365 8248 3380 8259 3378 8272 3362 8272
          3361 8266 3365 8258

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Peach	48 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.