Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 6:37 PM EDT for Cobb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cobb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 062237 SVRATL GAC067-121-062300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 635 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 625 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SANDY SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...FAIR OAKS... MARIETTA...SANDY SPRINGS...SMYRNA AND VININGS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 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 3399 8457 3381 8457 3380 8435 3404 8430
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, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.