Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 297, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2001, 12:05 AM EDT for Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2001, 12:05 AM EDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2001, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 12:15 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Carmel, GA | The Walker county 911 center reported that several trees and a power line were blown down on Georgia Highway 337 near Mount Carmel. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
025 WUUS52 KFFC 250405 SVRATL GAC295-250430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1205 AM EDT THU OCT 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT * AT 1201 AM EDT(1101 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROSSVILLE TO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...CHATTANOOGA VALLEY...CHICKAMAUGA...FAIRVIEW...LA FAYETTE...LINWOOD...LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND ROSSVILLE. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDTIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.