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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 22, 2001Towns County, Union County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2001, 12:20 PM EDT for Towns County, Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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: May 22, 2001, 12:20 PM EDT (16:20 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2001, 12:45 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Towns County, GA, Union County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 221621
SVRATL

GAC281-291-221645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1220 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1245 PM EDT

* AT 1215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF YOUNG HARRIS...MOVING EAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...YOUNG HARRIS
AND HIAWASSEE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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 3496 8398 3476 8389 3492 8332 3514 8342

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 9:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Fulton	29 min
May 22, 10:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	26 min
May 22, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	47 min
May 22, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter, Webster	45 min
May 22, 1:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	24 min
May 22, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	35 min
May 22, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston	25 min
May 22, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.