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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 22, 2001Sumter County, Webster County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2001, 1:45 PM EDT for Sumter County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Sumter County, GA, Webster County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 414 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2001-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 221746
SVRATL

GAC261-307-221830-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 141 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLAINS...MOVING EAST AT
  40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WESTON...
  PLAINS...LESLIE AND AMERICUS.

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

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 3200 8461 3191 8457 3196 8396 3^218 8414

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 9:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Douglas, Fulton29 min
May 22, 10:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett26 min
May 22, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTowns, Union25 min
May 22, 1:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon47 min
May 22, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPeach24 min
May 22, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Twiggs35 min
May 22, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Houston25 min
May 22, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington23 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.