Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 313
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 28, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT for 57 counties in Georgia; Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 34 min |
| May 28, 8:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 29 min |
| May 28, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 23 min |
| May 28, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 30 min |
| May 28, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 23 min |
| May 28, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 33 min |
| May 28, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 30 min |
| May 28, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 23 min |
| May 28, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 32 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.