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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 2002Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 8:12 PM EDT for Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Upson County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 8:21 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Thomaston, GA	An amateur radio operator reported dime 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 2107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 050012
SVRATL
GAC293-050045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 808 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF THOMASTON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... LOGTOWN AND 
THOMASTON AND YATESVILLE.

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 3275 8421 3291 8411 3295 8430 3288 8447

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Fulton	37 min
Jun 4, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall	30 min
Jun 4, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry	26 min
Jun 4, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	31 min
Jun 4, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Rockdale	37 min
Jun 4, 10:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke	36 min
Jun 4, 11:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	29 min
Jun 4, 11:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	32 min
Jun 4, 11:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Taliaferro	33 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.