Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2001, 1:04 PM EDT for Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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
- May 19, 2001, 1:04 PM EDT (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2001, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:40 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Commerce, GA | The public reported half-dollar size hail. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 191704 SVRATL GAC157-191730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 104 PM EDT SAT MAY 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER PENDERGRASS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TALMO... PENDERGRASS...NICHOLSON...MAYSVILLE...JEFFERSON AND COMMERCE. DAMAGING WINDS MAY OCCUR UP TO 10 MILES AHEAD OF THE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. M+OVE TO A SAFE PLACE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 23 min |
| May 19, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 35 min |
| May 19, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Hall | 35 min |
| May 19, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 36 min |
| May 19, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 36 min |
| May 19, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee | 42 min |
| May 19, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Walton | 42 min |
| May 19, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 28 min |
| May 19, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 25 min |
| May 19, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 17 min |
| May 19, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 18 min |
| May 19, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Monroe | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.