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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 325, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 1, 2002Taliaferro County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2002, 7:57 PM EDT for Taliaferro 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, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Taliaferro County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2002-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 869 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2002-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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.

275 
WUUS52 KFFC 012357
SVRATL
GAC265-020030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TALIAFERRO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 753 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CRAWFORDVILLE...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CRAWFORDVILLE.

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 3357 8300 3344 8290 3354 8280 3366 8293

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 8:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington32 min
Jul 31, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington, Wilkinson36 min
Jul 31, 9:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs32 min
Aug 1, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta42 min
Aug 1, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWarren33 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.