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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 1, 2002Dawson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2002, 6:17 PM EDT for Dawson County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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: Jul 1, 2002, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dawson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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.

854 
WUUS52 KFFC 012217
SVRATL
GAC085-012245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
616 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 613 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DAWSONVILLE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
  NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DAWSONVILLE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 3432 8412 3441 8406 3455 8429 3436 8424

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
Jun 30, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	24 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, 6:46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.