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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 24, 2001Cherokee County, Pickens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 6:01 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cherokee County, GA, Pickens County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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, 6:05 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Cedartown, GA	The public reported dime size hail.
May 24, 6:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Cedartown, GA	Two reports were received from the public of wind gusts estimated to 60 mph. There was also a report of several small branches blown down.
May 24, 6:47 PM EDT	Hail 2.75	Ducktown, GA	Over a dozen reports of large hail were received across mainly the central sections of Forsyth county, especially along Georgia Highway 20 and Georgia Highway 369, including the cities of Ducktown, Matt, Cumming, Coal Mountain, and Oscarville. There were seve

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, 10.0 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 242201
SVRATL
GAC057-227-242245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 554 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF WALESKA...MOVING EAST AT 45
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WALESKA...
  NELSON...JASPER...CANTON AND BALL GROUND.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS 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 3450 8447 3448 8466 3425 8465 3424 8427
          3447 8429

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, 5:23 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, 6:31 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

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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.