Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 10:47 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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
- Apr 28, 2002, 10:47 PM EDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 10:58 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome, GA | The Floyd county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down in the city. |
| Apr 28, 11:04 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Rome, GA | Numerous reports were received from the public and amateur radio operators of hail ranging in size from dimes to quarters. There were two reports that the hail lasted for several minutes. One report from Silver Creek indicated that hail of various sizes from |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
696 WUUS52 KFFC 290247 SVRATL GAC115-290315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1045 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1037 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROME...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LAVENDER... LAKEVIEW...ROME...AND MOUNT BERRY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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. $$ RAB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 9:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 10:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 28 min |
| Apr 29, 12:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 1:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 2:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 2:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 3:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 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.