Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2002, 4:50 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 4, 2002, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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 4, 4:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville, GA | The Meriwether county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down. |
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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
782 WUUS52 KFFC 042050 SVRATL GAC199-042115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 449 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 442 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOODBURY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GAY... GREENVILLE...WARM SPRINGS AND WOODBURY. 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 3291 8453 3311 8451 3299 8484 3285 8478
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 33 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.