Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2001, 11:31 PM EST for Laurens County, Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 3, 2001, 11:31 PM EST (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2001, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Laurens County, GA, Treutlen County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 11:35 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Soperton, GA | The Truetlen county 911 center reported that a power line was 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 040432 SVRATL GAC175-283-040500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1131 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA TREUTLEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST * AT 1124 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH LOCATED FROM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOPERTON TO 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOPERTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...SOPERTON AND CEDAR GROVE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER. LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 10:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 19 min |
| Mar 3, 10:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 26 min |
| Mar 3, 10:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 11:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 23 min |
| Mar 4, 12:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 29 min |
| Mar 4, 12:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 19 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.