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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 1, 2002Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2002, 8:37 PM EDT for Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 2002, 8:37 PM EDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 1, 8:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica, GA	The Carroll county 911 center reported that a few trees were down.

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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 1560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1332 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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.

633 
WUUS52 KFFC 020037
SVRATL
GAC045-097-020100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 833 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR VILLA RICA...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TEMPLE AND
VILLA RICA.

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 3366 8479 3378 8478 3378 8504 3358 8505

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	27 min
Aug 2, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall, Jackson	36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.