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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 6, 2002Telfair County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 4:31 PM EDT for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 6, 2002, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Telfair County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 632 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 062031
SVRATL
GAC271-062100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
430 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 427 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSONVILLE...MOVING
  SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...JACKSONVILLE
AND MILAN.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE 
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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 3189 8321 3176 8306 3180 8298 3204 8305

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Webster	26 min
Jul 6, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	34 min
Jul 6, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	22 min
Jul 6, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	33 min
Jul 6, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	43 min
Jul 6, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	White	24 min
Jul 6, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	24 min
Jul 6, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	35 min
Jul 6, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	41 min
Jul 6, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Peach	35 min
Jul 6, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	36 min
Jul 6, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	30 min

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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.