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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 11, 2002Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 5:33 PM EDT for Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2002, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Talbot County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 112133
SVRATL
GAC263-112215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
533 PM EDT SAT MAY 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 531 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF TALBOTTON. THE SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TALBOTTON...
  WOODLAND...AND PRATTSBURG.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

THIS STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN
LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS CAN CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3273 8460 3260 8452 3261 8439 3276 8436
          3283 8452

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	45 min
May 11, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	30 min
May 11, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	31 min
May 11, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	33 min
May 11, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	31 min
May 11, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford	51 min
May 11, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	35 min
May 11, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Taylor	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.