Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 806
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 24, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT for 10 counties in Alabama; 32 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2001, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Marshall County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin 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, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 49 min |
| Oct 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 35 min |
| Oct 24, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 25 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 13 more | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.