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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 24, 2001Bartow County, Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 5:23 PM EDT for Bartow County, Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. 3 reports 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, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 5:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Rome, GA	The Rome News Tribune, as well as the public, reported that several trees were blown down in the Rome area. Trees were down on a gas meter on Thomas Road, and other trees were down on Wayside Road, Sunny Heights Drive, Boulder Road, and Harris Road.
May 24, 5:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, GA	The Daily Tribune News of Cartersville reported that some trees and limbs were knocked down at various locations throughout the county. The majority of the damage was observed in the Hall Station/Barnsley Gardens area. The Rome News Tribune reported that a f
May 24, 6:05 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Trion, GA	The public reported dime size hail at Pennville.

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 24, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 242123
SVRATL
GAC015-115-242200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  EASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 519 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ROME...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WHITE...
  SHANNON...ROME...LINDALE...KINGSTON AND ADAIRSVILLE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3437 8526 3417 8519 3422 8467 3441 8466
          3438 8496 3442 8523

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson	35 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.