Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 534
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 2001, 1:00 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2001, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 84 counties
DeKalb County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Murray County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Moore County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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.
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Hart | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 3:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1891 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 Tennessee, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North 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.