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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2002, 5:03 PM EDT for Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. 3 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
- Aug 20, 2002, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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 20, 5:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wax, GA | The Floyd county 911 center reported that power lines were down near Wax Lake. |
| Aug 20, 5:05 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Wax, GA | The Floyd county 911 center reported dime size hail near Wax Lake. |
| Aug 20, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedartown, GA | The Polk county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down on Campbell Road. |
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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1515 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 19 min |
| Aug 20, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 21 min |
| Aug 20, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 44 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.