Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 7:35 PM EDT for Macon County, Schley County, Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Macon County, GA, Schley County, GA, Sumter County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 042335 SVRATL GAC193-249-261-050000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 735 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN MACON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN SCHLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 731 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF ANDERSONVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ANDERSONVILLE...ELLAVILLE AND OGLETHORPE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 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 3206 8427 3211 8404 3231 8407 3230 8436
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, 6:03 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, 7:38 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.