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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Atlanta, GA

September 14, 2002Towns County, Union County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 2002, 5:16 PM EDT for Towns County, Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 14, 2002, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Towns County, GA, Union County, GA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2002-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2002-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Paulding28 min
Sep 14, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd24 min
Sep 14, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Cherokee32 min
Sep 14, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke21 min
Sep 14, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon, Pickens33 min
Sep 14, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLumpkin, White23 min
Sep 14, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield47 min
Sep 14, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair26 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.