Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2002, 3:54 PM EDT for Banks County, Barrow County, Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2002, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Jackson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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, 4:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer, GA | The Banks county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down near the Hall/ Banks county line in the Hickory Flat area near Gillsville. |
| May 13, 4:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | The Jackson county 911 center reported that numerous trees were down all across the county. |
| May 13, 4:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Winder, GA | The Barrow county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down. |
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 131954 SVRATL GAC011-013-157-132030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 354 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 352 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH LOCATED FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF HOMER TO AUBURN...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...ARCADE... AUBURN...BETHLEHEM...BRASELTON...CARL...COMMERCE...HOMER... HOSCHTON...JEFFERSON...MAYSVILLE...NICHOLSON...PENDERGRASS... RUSSELL...STATHAM...TALMO AND WINDER. DAMAGING WINDS MAY OCCUR UP TO 5 MILES AHEAD OF THE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW 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.
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, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 33 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, 3:59 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.