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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 21, 2002Paulding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT for Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 21, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2002, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Paulding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 1664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

574 
WUUS52 KFFC 212315
SVRATL
GAC223-212345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
713 PM EDT SUN JUL 21 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 711 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DALLAS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DALLAS...
  HUNTSVILLE AND BRASWELL.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 3401 8496 3409 8489 3409 8475 3386 8472
          3383 8491

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	30 min
Jul 21, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson	26 min
Jul 21, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Washington	33 min
Jul 21, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	28 min
Jul 21, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Peach	27 min
Jul 21, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	35 min
Jul 21, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	39 min
Jul 21, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.