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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 22, 2001Houston County, Twiggs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2001, 2:25 PM EDT for Houston County, Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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 22, 2001, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2001, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Houston County, GA, Twiggs County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 2:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Bonaire, GA	The public reported dime to nickel size hail.
May 22, 2:32 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Warner Robins, GA	The Houston County Fire Department reported that a tree had fallen down and knocked some power lines down.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 22, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 22, 1:45 PM EDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 1:45 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
145 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001

CURRENT ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL TROF AND AHEAD OF FRONT
SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST. IT WILL DIMINISH AND CLOUDS CLEAR FROM
WEST. FEW CLOUDS IN SECONDARY TRAILING WAVE.
AIR MASS FOLLOWING FRONT MUCH ADVERTISED COOLING.. WILL GO BELOW
GUIDANCE THRU WEDNESDAY UNTIL CLOUDS ASSOCIATED NEXT SYSTEM NOVE IN.

SCENARIO. ALOFT LOW/TROF NORTH CENTRAL US ROTATES INTO GREAT LAKES
AND THEN SLOWLY MOVES TO NEW ENGLAND LATE NEXT WEEK. WAVES ROTATE
AROUND LOW, MAKING TIMING SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT ON SYSTEMS AFFECTIONG
GA.
2ND FRONT ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVES INTO GA THURSDAY AND
STALLS(?) AS A WAVE ROTATES AROUND LOW OVER GREAT LAKES. ASSOCIATED
LOW DEVEOPS AND MOVES FRONT ON THRU GA FRIDAY, THUS POPS BOTH DAYS.
ANOTHER WEAK SYSTEM HINTED AT SUNDAY. WILL LEAVE MENTION OF POPS OUT
FOR NOW.

TEMPERATURES... WILL GO UNDER GUIDANCE THRU WEDNESDAY. REMAINDER OF
TIME GUIDANCE COOLER THAN SAME RUN MONDAY AND FAVOR THIS AS SYSTEM
SO COOL.

RMG 45/75/50/64 0137  GVL 50/72/51/68 0-26
ATL 50/76/54/70 0126  AHN 51/75/51/71 -025
CSG 54/81/60/78 0012  MCN 54/81/57/79 2002

.ATL...
GA...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 11:34 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY, GA
1134 AM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1020 AM    CLEM                      GA   WIND DAMAGE
05/22/01   CARROLL                        TREES DOWN.

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, 12:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union	25 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, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston	25 min
May 22, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	23 min

Nearby

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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.