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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 6, 2002Taliaferro County, Wilkes County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 5:39 PM EDT for Taliaferro County, Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 6, 2002, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Taliaferro County, GA, Wilkes County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 922 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 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 062139
SVRATL
GAC265-317-062215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
539 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TALIAFERRO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 532 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SHARON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CRAWFORDVILLE...RAYLE...SHARON AND WASHINGTON.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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 3381 8295 3355 8298 3352 8274 3369 8259

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray	33 min
Jun 5, 9:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	27 min
Jun 5, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	35 min
Jun 5, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	35 min
Jun 5, 10:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, Union, White	21 min
Jun 5, 11:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union, White	22 min
Jun 6, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson	35 min
Jun 6, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Whitfield	29 min
Jun 6, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	23 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.