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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 2002Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2002, 8:36 PM EDT for Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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, 8:36 PM EDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Walker County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 30, 8:49 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	La Fayette, GA	The Walker county 911 center reported that some power lines were blown down.

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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

976 
WUUS52 KFFC 010036
SVRATL
GAC295-010100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 831 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LA FAYETTE...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LA FAYETTE   
  AND LINWOOD.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 3463 8553 3466 8549 3475 8545 3473 8519
          3461 8519 3460 8553

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	43 min
Jul 1, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	22 min
Jul 1, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	19 min
Jul 1, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	29 min
Jul 1, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	31 min
Jul 1, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	34 min
Jul 1, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson	28 min
Jul 1, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	29 min
Jul 1, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray	36 min
Jul 1, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	33 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.