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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 17, 2001Baldwin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2001, 1:24 AM EST for Baldwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 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: Feb 17, 2001, 1:24 AM EST (06:24 UTC)
Expired: Feb 17, 2001, 1:45 AM EST
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baldwin County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

966 
WUUS52 KFFC 170625
SVRATL
GAC009-170645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
124 AM EST SAT FEB 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 145 AM EST

* AT 117 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH
  LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF MILLEDGEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MILLEDGEVILLE
  AND MIDWAY-HARDWICK.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS
PASS.

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 3312 8336 3295 8330 3303 8310 3317 8322

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 7:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Morgan	45 min
Feb 16, 7:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Madison	45 min
Feb 16, 7:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oconee	45 min
Feb 16, 7:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe	42 min
Feb 17, 1:35 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	25 min
Feb 17, 1:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Warren	25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.