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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 2002Meriwether County, Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2002, 3:58 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 30, 2002, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Upson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 41 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: 1860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 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.

556 
WUUS52 KFFC 301958
SVRATL
GAC199-293-302045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
358 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHWESTERN UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 355 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WOODBURY...MOVING WEST AT
  5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GREENVILLE...
  WARM SPRINGS AND WOODBURY.

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 3310 8470 3307 8453 3302 8454 3298 8448
          3298 8436 3285 8440 3288 8475 3304 8472

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington, Wilkinson	35 min
Jun 30, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Schley	38 min
Jun 30, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	44 min
Jun 30, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Peach	39 min
Jun 30, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	46 min
Jun 30, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	25 min
Jun 30, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	30 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.