Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 8:16 PM EDT for Bartow County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2002, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bartow County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:18 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Adairsville, GA | Several reports of hail ranging in size from quarters, to half-dollars, to golf balls were received from the public. |
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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
118 WUUS52 KFFC 290016 SVRATL GAC015-290045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 815 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 806 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ADAIRSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ADAIRSVILLE AND WHITE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 26 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.