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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 2002Meriwether County, Troup County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 6:03 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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 4, 2002, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Troup County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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
Jun 4, 6:06 PM EDT	Hail 1	La Grange, GA	Storm spotters reported dime to quarter size hail.

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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 65 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.

445 
WUUS52 KFFC 042203
SVRATL
GAC199-285-042230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LA GRANGE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
HOGANSVILLE...LA GRANGE...LONE OAK...LUTHERSVILLE AND WEST POINT.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH 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 3287 8518 3288 8490 3321 8472 3312 8518

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, 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, 6:21 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.