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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 2, 2002Paulding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 6:09 PM EDT for Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 2, 2002, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Paulding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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, 6:10 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Hiram, GA	Three reports of hail were received from the public. One report was of dime size hail, another nickel size hail, and a third was golf ball size.

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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 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.

015 
WUUS52 KFFC 022209
SVRATL
GAC223-022245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 604 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HIRAM...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DALLAS AND
HIRAM.

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 3384 8475 3394 8474 3397 8493 3380 8493

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, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	36 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, 6:22 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

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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.