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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 24, 2001Banks County, Jackson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 5:10 PM EDT for Banks County, Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2001, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Banks County, GA, Jackson County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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 24, 5:25 PM EDT	Hail 1	Armuchee, GA	Several reports of dime to quarter size hail were received from the public across the northern part of Floyd county, including Armuchee, Shannon, and Rome. One person reported that hail covered the ground about 5 miles northeast of Rome.

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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 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 242111
SVRATL

GAC011-157-242145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
510 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 508 PM EDT... A DANGEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  MAYSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MAYSVILLE...
  HOMER AND COMMERCE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 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 3437 8342 3435 8343 3433 8363 3417 8363
          3417 83\38 3422 8338 3425 8333 3433 8340
          3437 8340

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd	37 min
May 24, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	52 min
May 24, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	44 min
May 24, 6:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth	44 min
May 24, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	23 min
May 24, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon	36 min
May 24, 6:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Hall	36 min
May 24, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett	32 min
May 24, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	32 min
May 24, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson	26 min
May 24, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	38 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.