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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 3, 2002Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 7:54 PM EDT for Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 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: Jun 3, 2002, 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2002, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 757 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1276 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

743 
WUUS52 KFFC 032354
SVRATL
GAC091-175-040015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
752 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHWESTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CADWELL...MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CADWELL...
DEXTER...EASTMAN AND RENTZ.

STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH 
FREQUENT LIGHTNING ACCOMPANYING THIS STORM. STAY ALERT FOR LOCALIZED 
FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS.

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 3212 8312 3233 8287 3247 8304 3226 8331

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	29 min
Jun 3, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery	28 min
Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery	23 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.