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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 2002Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 10:25 PM EDT for Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 5, 2002, 10:25 PM EDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2002, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 35 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2002-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1370 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2002-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1322 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 060225
SVRATL
GAC231-060300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1024 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 1019 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ZEBULON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CONCORD...
MEANSVILLE...WILLIAMSON AND ZEBULON.

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 3300 8451 3300 8427 3315 8427 3320 8443

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin, Gilmer, Murray33 min
Jun 5, 9:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin27 min
Jun 5, 9:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLumpkin35 min
Jun 5, 10:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLumpkin, Union, White21 min
Jun 5, 11:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTowns, Union, White22 min
Jun 6, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJackson35 min
Jun 6, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaliaferro, Wilkes36 min
Jun 6, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa, Whitfield29 min
Jun 6, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.