Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 12:41 PM EST for DeKalb County, Henry County, Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 12:41 PM EST (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 1:15 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Henry County, GA, Rockdale County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 191742 SVRATL GAC063-089-151-217-247-191815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1241 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 115 PM EST * AT 1237 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITHONIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PORTERDALE... LITHONIA...LAKEVIEW ESTATES AND CONYERS. 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 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3366 8435 3353 8420 3351 8383 3380 8399
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 39 min |
| Jan 19, 11:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 32 min |
| Jan 19, 12:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 51 min |
| Jan 19, 12:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taylor | 39 min |
| Jan 19, 12:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 12:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 12:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 23 min |
| Jan 19, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 36 min |
| Jan 19, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 29 min |
| Jan 19, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson, Washington | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 24 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.