Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 9:18 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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
- Jun 3, 2002, 9:18 PM EDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Cochran, GA | The Bleckley county 911 center reported dime size hail. |
| Jun 3, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cochran, GA | The Bleckley county 911 center reported that a couple of power poles and a few 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
611 WUUS52 KFFC 040118 SVRATL GAC023-091-040200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 916 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 908 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COCHRAN...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...COCHRAN. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. THESE STORMS ARE SLOW MOVERS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING MAY OCCUR. 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 3230 8334 3238 8317 3255 8326 3247 8345
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Pulaski | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 23 min |
| Jun 4, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Sumter | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 41 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.