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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 19, 2001Gwinnett County, Walton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2001, 1:24 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2001, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2001, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gwinnett County, GA, Walton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 19, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 191727
SVRATL

GAC013-135-157-297-191800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
124 PM EDT SAT MAY 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN WALTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 123 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH      
  LOCATED OVER DACULA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM                        
INCLUDE...WINDER.....STATHAM...RUSSELL...LOGANVILLE...JEFFERSON...
...DACULA...
...BETHLEHEM...AUBURN AND ARCADE.

IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THESE
STORMS.

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, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson	26 min
May 19, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.