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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 24, 2001Gilmer County, Gordon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 6:39 PM EDT for Gilmer County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 24, 2001, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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.

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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 242239
SVRATL
GAC123-129-242315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 635 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELLIJAY...MOVING EAST AT
  45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ELLIJAY AND
  EAST ELLIJAY.

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 3474 8434 3468 8464 3459 8464 3458 8472
          3461 8473 3459 8477 3459 8495 3446 8492
          3456 8466 3456 8435 3459 8430 3467 8430

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, 6:01 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, 6:54 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.