Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2002, 3:27 PM EDT for Cobb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2002, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cobb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 3:39 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Marietta, GA | The Cobb county 911 center reported trees and power lines down on Sandy Plains Road. |
| May 13, 3:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Crabapple, GA | An amateur radio operator reported dime to nickel size hail at the intersection of Crab Apple Road and Georgia Highway 140. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 131927 SVRATL GAC067-121-132000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 327 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 322 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH LOCATED OVER FAIR OAKS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALPHARETTA... FAIR OAKS...KENNESAW...MARIETTA...ROSWELL...SANDY SPRINGS...SMYRNA AND VININGS. WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED. TAKE COVER NOW EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. 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 3403 8467 3383 8466 3388 8434 3411 8424
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 44 min |
| May 13, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 26 min |
| May 13, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Towns, Union | 36 min |
| May 13, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 22 min |
| May 13, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Hall | 36 min |
| May 13, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 38 min |
| May 13, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 34 min |
| May 13, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 31 min |
| May 13, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 29 min |
| May 13, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Jackson | 36 min |
| May 13, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Jackson | 31 min |
| May 13, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oconee, Walton | 40 min |
| May 13, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oconee, Walton | 37 min |
| May 13, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 36 min |
| May 13, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 28 min |
| May 13, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 29 min |
| May 13, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 34 min |
| May 13, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 35 min |
| May 13, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren | 24 min |
| May 13, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 29 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.