Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 7:09 PM EDT for Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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.
629 WUUS52 KFFC 022309 SVRATL GAC263-022345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 709 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 700 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOODLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GENEVA... JUNCTION CITY...TALBOTTON AND WOODLAND. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 3259 8468 3256 8447 3284 8445 3283 8468
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, 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, 7:29 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.