Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 350, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 2002, 4:52 PM EDT for Lumpkin County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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
- Sep 14, 2002, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lumpkin County, GA, White County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | The Lumpkin county 911 center reported scattered trees down in several areas around the county. The Amicalola Electric Membership Cooperative noted at least one tree down in the southern part of the county. |
| Sep 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | The White county 911 center reported scattered trees down in several areas around the county. |
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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 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, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 24 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, 4:58 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
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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.