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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 2002Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2002, 7:05 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 30, 2002, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2002, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Floyd County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 30, 7:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland, GA	The Chattooga county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down on Georgia Highway 100 at Sprite in the extreme southern part of the county.

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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 302305
SVRATL
GAC115-302330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 658 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY...MOVING WEST AT
  10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL WEST   
  CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY NEAR COOSA AND LIVINGSTON.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 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 3429 8544 3429 8539 3434 8536 3436 8530
          3423 8526 3418 8540

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Upson	47 min
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, 7:30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.