Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2002, 1:58 PM EST for Cobb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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
- Mar 31, 2002, 1:58 PM EST (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cobb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:03 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | East Pt, GA | Several reports of dime size hail were received from the public from East Point to Lakewood Heights and the southeast Atlanta area to Piedmont Park just northeast of Atlanta. |
| Mar 31, 2:16 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakewood Hgts, GA | The public reported that some siding was torn off a house in the Lakewood Heights area of southeast Atlanta and some arm size branches were blown out of trees at the intersection of Interstate 85 and Camp Creek Parkway, about 2 miles west of Hartsfield Intern |
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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
016 WUUS52 KFFC 311858 SVRATL GAC067-121-311930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 157 PM EST SUN MAR 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 230 PM EST * AT 156 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 55 MPH MPH LOCATED OVER EAST POINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ATLANTA... COLLEGE PARK...EAST POINT...FAIRBURN...HAPEVILLE...UNION CITY AND VININGS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 9:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 2:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 33 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.