Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 8:15 PM EDT for Dooly County, Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dooly County, GA, Pulaski County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:19 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst, GA | The Dooly county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down. |
| Jul 6, 8:27 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Pinehurst, GA | The Dooly county 911 center reported dime 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 070015 SVRATL GAC093-235-070100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 814 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA WESTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 808 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF UNADILLA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... HAWKINSVILLE...PINEHURST AND UNADILLA. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 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, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 22 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.