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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 10, 2002Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 2002, 5:22 PM EST for Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 2002, 5:22 PM EST (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 10, 5:22 PM EST	Tornado F0	Bolingbroke, GA	The National Weather Service disaster survey team continued its survey into extreme southern Monroe county and classified the damage here as F0 tornado damage as well. The same tornado that originated in extreme northern Bibb county moved east-northeast into
Nov 10, 5:40 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Gray, GA	The Jones county Emergency Management Director reported that strong thunderstorm winds caused considerable damage to a trucking industry located in Pinesville, about halfway between Gray and Haddock on Georgia Highway 22. The winds removed a portion of the ro

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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 74 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 102222
SVRATL
GAC207-102245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
522 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EST

* AT 517 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY...MOVING EAST
  AT 15 MPH.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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.

LAT...LON 3300 8394 3289 8381 3295 8371 3313 8380

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 4:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar	31 min
Nov 10, 5:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.