Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2001, 4:48 PM EDT for Appling County, Jeff Davis County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2001, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2001, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Appling County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...ADDED SVR TSTM WATCH TO ADV SECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 220 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001 CURRENTLY...AFTER AN EXCITING MORNING...MOST OF OUR AREA IS DEVOID OF PRECIP. MASS OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS OVER SE AREA CONTINUING TO SHIFT E AND WEAKEN. RESIDUAL CI CANOPY ERODING FROM THE W OVER THE BIG BEND AREA. 2 ORGANIZED LINES OF CONVECTION ARE LOOMING TO THE W OF THE AREA. THE 1ST IS OVER SW GA WITH SOME ACTIVITY FORMING AHEAD OF IT IN THE SUNNY/HOT W GA CWA. IT IS THIS AREA OF CONCERN WHICH HAS PROMPTED SPC TO ISSUE A SVR TSTM WATCH FOR THE W 1/2 OF OUR GA COUNTIES. STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH A FEW STORMS PRODUCING HAIL AS WELL. THIS AREA IS COINCIDENT WITH AN AREA OF UPPER DIVERGENCE...RR QUAD OF JET...AND GOOD INSTABILITY. MODELS... MODELS SHIFT BEST DYNAMICS E ACROSS GA ZONES TONIGHT AND EARLY SAT AS AREA WEAKENS. DRIER AIR FILTERS IN BEHIND SFC FRONT. APPEARS SFC FRONT WILL WEAKEN AS A BOUNDARY...BUT ALL MODELS STILL PICK UP ON GOOD ATMOS DRYING WORKING INTO THE REGION. PUBLIC...IN THE SHORT TERM...WILL CONTEND WITH PRIMARY LINE OF TSTMS THIS AFTN...WITH SECONDARY LINE PUSHING INTO THE AREA TONIGHT IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER. BEST RAIN CHANCES WILL BE IN W ZONES TONIGHT...AND ALONG FL E COAST SAT AS FRONTAL PRECIP INTERACTS WITH POSSIBLE SEA BREEZE NEAR THE COAST. WILL THEREFORE GO 70% FOR NE FL COASTAL ZONES. EXTENDED...CLIMO APPEARS TO BE THE RULE THRU THE EXTENDED PD. MARINE...WILL NEED TO INDICATE MORE OF A WIND SHIFT WITH REMAINS OF FRONT. OTHERWISE...NOT MUCH CHANGES ANTICIPATED. PRELIM... AMG 69/87/67/87 7512 SSI 72/86/71/84 4633 JAX 70/88/69/87 4733 GNV 69/87/70/88 4634 .JAX... FL...NONE. GA...SVR TSTM WATCH TIL 22Z GAZ132>135-149-150-162>164. PUBLIC/MARINE...CARROLL AVIATION/FIRE...SCOTT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
GAZ132>135-149-150-162>164-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 125 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 6 PM EDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 6 PM EDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...ATKINSON...APPLING... ECHOLS...BACON...WARE...COFFEE...CHARLTON...JEFF DAVIS...AND CLINCH. IT INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...DOUGLAS...FEARSON...HOMERVILLE...AND WAYCROSS. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH GEORGIA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT...AND DEVELOP SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...AND PRODUCE STRONG WINDS TO 50 TO 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. SPOTTERS SHOULD ALSO MONITOR THE WEATHER FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE JACKSONVILLE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWSJAX.NOAA.GOV. MCT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Union | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.