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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 6, 2002Houston County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 8:08 PM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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: Jul 6, 2002, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Houston County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 6, 8:20 PM EDT	Hail 1	Elko, GA	The Houston county 911 center reported quarter size hail.

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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 2830 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 070008
SVRATL
GAC153-070030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 803 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY THE SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM 
INCLUDE...KLONDIKE...ELKO...RURAL SOUTHEASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS 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
Jul 6, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski	45 min
Jul 7, 12:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether	49 min
Jul 7, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	23 min
Jul 7, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	36 min
Jul 7, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	47 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.