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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 6:57 PM EDT for Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 2, 2002, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Haralson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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.
978 WUUS52 KFFC 022257 SVRATL GAC143-022330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 656 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 645 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FELTON AND TALLAPOOSA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TALLAPOOSA AND BUCHANAN. 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 3376 8515 3383 8536 3370 8534 3368 8520
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, 6:09 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.