Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 2002, 3:51 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Sep 14, 2002, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Floyd County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
185 WUUS52 KFFC 141951 SVRATL +GAC115-142015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 350 PM EDT SAT SEP 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 346 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CAVE SPRING AND RURAL SOUTHWESTERN FLOYD COUNTY. 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 3409 8542 3412 8523 3429 8530 3429 8545
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 28 min |
| Sep 14, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 32 min |
| Sep 14, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 21 min |
| Sep 14, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 33 min |
| Sep 14, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 23 min |
| Sep 14, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield | 47 min |
| Sep 14, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 29 min |
| Sep 14, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002Every 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.