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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 8:04 PM EDT for Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2002, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gordon County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
765 WUUS52 KFFC 290004 SVRATL GAC129-290030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 802 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 753 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF CALHOUN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CALHOUN AND SUGAR VALLEY. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 9:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 10:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 28 min |
| Apr 29, 12:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 1:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 2:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 2:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 3:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 36 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.