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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 6:40 PM EDT for Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hall County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 062240
SVRATL
GAC139-062315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
638 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 629 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF CLERMONT NEAR ROGERS MILL...
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
* THIS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS EAST OF CLERMONT AND MAY
EVENTUALLY AFFECT LULA.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS ALSO LIKELY 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 3444 8362 3451 8367 3450 8378 3435 8377
3428 8364 3439 8367
$$
RABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 29 min |
| 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, 6:49 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.