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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 3, 2002Houston County, Pulaski County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 9:57 PM EDT for Houston County, Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 9:57 PM EDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2002, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Houston County, GA, Pulaski County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 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

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The text

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

915 
WUUS52 KFFC 040157
SVRATL
GAC153-235-040230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY AND NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY IN 
  CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 938 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING FROM BLECKLEY COUNTY ACROSS NORTHERN 
PULASKI COUNTY TOWARD EXTREME EAST CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY...AND 
MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL 
PORTIONS OF NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY AND RURAL CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA. TBESE STORMS ARE SLOW MOVERS AND SOME LOCALIZED 
FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.

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 8351 3248 8349 3254 8363 3234 8374

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 9:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge	42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.