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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 2, 2002Hall County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 3:17 PM EDT for Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 2002, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2002, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Hall County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 2, 3:20 PM EDTHail 0.88Clermont, GAThree reports of nickel size hail were received from the public.

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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2002-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2133 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2002-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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.

281 
WUUS52 KFFC 021917
SVRATL
GAC139-021945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
315 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 308 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CLERMONT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CLERMONT...
GAINESVILLE...GAINESVILLE MILLS...GILLSVILLE AND LULA.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKLES 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson25 min
Jul 2, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth34 min
Jul 2, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard23 min
Jul 2, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton35 min
Jul 2, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton36 min
Jul 2, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock25 min
Jul 2, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin36 min
Jul 2, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb29 min
Jul 2, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll25 min
Jul 2, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock21 min
Jul 2, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett35 min
Jul 2, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones31 min
Jul 2, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee28 min
Jul 2, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Putnam36 min
Jul 2, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkinson32 min
Jul 2, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton46 min
Jul 2, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPolk30 min
Jul 2, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp29 min
Jul 2, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe26 min
Jul 2, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton41 min
Jul 2, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPaulding36 min
Jul 2, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette38 min
Jul 2, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb34 min
Jul 2, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry47 min
Jul 2, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe30 min
Jul 2, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas45 min
Jul 2, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford38 min
Jul 2, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll36 min
Jul 2, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaliaferro34 min
Jul 2, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCUpson40 min
Jul 2, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson33 min
Jul 2, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkes45 min
Jul 2, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTalbot36 min
Jul 2, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris46 min
Jul 2, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll43 min
Jul 2, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCUpson26 min
Jul 2, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether27 min
Jul 2, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCUpson31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.