Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 4:39 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:42 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Crabapple, GA | The Chief Meteorologist from FOX 5 News in Atlanta and the public reported dime to nickel size hail from Crabapple to Alpharetta, and the public reported dime size hail in Roswell. |
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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 022040 SVRATL GAC141-022105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 439 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 505 PM EDT * AT 435 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL HANCOCK COUNTY...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL WESTERN HANCOCK COUNTY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. 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 3318 8299 3338 8307 3322 8325 3314 8309
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 23 min |
| Jul 2, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 21 min |
| Jul 2, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 31 min |
| Jul 2, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 31 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.