Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2002, 2:35 PM EST for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 31, 2002, 2:35 PM EST (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sumter County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 3:10 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Americus, GA | The Sumter county 911 center reported that three trees and a power line were blown down in Americus. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
834 WUUS52 KFFC 311935 SVRATL GAC261-312015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 234 PM EST SUN MAR 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 315 PM EST * AT 231 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMERICUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...AMERICUS...DE SOTO AND LESLIE. 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 3197 8444 3190 8425 3196 8399 3216 8415
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 9:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.