Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Jul 3, 2002, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)

Expired

Jul 3, 2002, 3:45 PM EDT

In force

29 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pickens County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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.

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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
316 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 309 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER JASPER...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...JASPER AND
TALKING ROCK.

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 3437 8438 3455 8439 3454 8459 3440 8459

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 10:12 AM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1012 AM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

SATELLITE SHOWS MOST CLOUDINESS OVER THE FAR NORTH...BUT WOULD
EXPECT A DIMINISHING TREND THERE. FEEL PARTLY CLOUDY IS BETTER
DESCRIPTOR FOR TODAY. WILL DO UPDATE FOR MINOR CLOUD TWEAK AND TO
RAISE POPS BY 10 PERCENT OR SO. OTHERWISE CURRENT ZONES REFLECT
CONDITIONS WELL.

DH

.ATL...
GA...NONE.

OUR DETAILED COUNTY FORECASTS ARE AVAILABLE AT FOUS52 KFFC. OUR AREA
FORECAST FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA CITIES IS AVAILABLE AT FLUS42
KFFC.

In the hours before

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1130 AM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

...SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...

.SYNOPSIS...
WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA
TODAY.

.PRIMARY HAZARD...
THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE LIGHTNING AND
DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. HOWEVER A FEW STORMS MAY ALSO CONTAIN
DAMAGING WINDS. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
WILL BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DISCUSSION...
THE AIRMASS WILL BECOME MORE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH CAPES OF
2000 TO 2500...AND LIFTED INDICES OF MINUS 3 TO MINUS 4. EVEN THOUGH
THE AREAL EXTENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
...SOME STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING DIME TO QUARTER
SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

.FOR SPOTTERS...
SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR
WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.

&&
FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER
INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/FFC.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.