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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 313

May 28, 200157 counties in Georgia; Oconee County, South Carolina

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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Warnings issued inside it

9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow34 min
May 28, 8:31 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCCherokee29 min
May 28, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow23 min
May 28, 9:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee30 min
May 28, 9:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth23 min
May 28, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth, Hall33 min
May 28, 10:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett30 min
May 28, 10:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Henry23 min
May 28, 10:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett32 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 764 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.