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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 324, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 1, 2002Warren County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2002, 7:12 PM EDT for Warren County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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: Aug 1, 2002, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2002, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Warren County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 869 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 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.

103 
WUUS52 KFFC 012312
SVRATL
GAC301-012345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
712 PM EDT THU AUG 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 707 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WARRENTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CAMAK...
NORWOOD AND WARRENTON.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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.

LAT...LON 3339 8281 3326 8266 3341 8257 3359 8265

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	32 min
Jul 31, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington, Wilkinson	36 min
Jul 31, 9:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	32 min
Aug 1, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	42 min
Aug 1, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro	33 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.