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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 2002Chattahoochee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 3:51 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 4, 2002, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chattahoochee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1014 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 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.

457 
WUUS52 KFFC 041951
SVRATL
GAC053-042015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
351 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 347 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CUSSETA...MOVING NORTHWEST
  AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CUSSETA.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

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 3225 8481 3234 8465 3248 8467 3237 8492

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 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, 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

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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.