Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 341
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 31, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT for 12 counties in Alabama; 64 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 76 counties
Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 37 min |
| May 31, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 31 min |
| May 31, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 31 min |
| May 31, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 33 min |
| May 31, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 44 min |
| May 31, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin | 5 hr |
| May 31, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 23 more | 6 hr |
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.