Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 368, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 2002, 3:17 AM EST for Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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 11, 2002, 3:17 AM EST (08:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2002, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hall County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 3:56 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | The Hall county Emergency Management Director reported that a chicken house was blown down on Joe Chandeler Road about four miles east of Gainesville. The house and most of the chickens were destroyed. Trees were also blown down in scattered areas around the |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 11:05 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 110817 SVRATL GAC139-110900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 316 AM EST MON NOV 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 AM EST * AT 311 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF WESTSIDE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GAINESVILLE...GAINESVILLE MILLS...GILLSVILLE...LULA AND WESTSIDE. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKLES 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 3439 8397 3420 8400 3430 8363 3450 8366
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 10:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 11:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 11:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 40 min |
| Nov 11, 12:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 43 min |
| Nov 11, 12:35 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 85 min |
| Nov 11, 12:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 44 min |
| Nov 11, 12:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 34 min |
| Nov 11, 1:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 37 min |
| Nov 11, 1:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 48 min |
| Nov 11, 1:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 1:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 1:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 40 min |
| Nov 11, 1:58 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 2:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 48 min |
| Nov 11, 2:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Paulding | 60 min |
| Nov 11, 2:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 52 min |
| Nov 11, 2:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 53 min |
| Nov 11, 2:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 2:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 96 min |
| Nov 11, 3:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 24 min |
| Nov 11, 3:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 23 min |
| Nov 11, 3:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 32 min |
| Nov 11, 4:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 4:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 4:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 38 min |
| Nov 11, 4:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 63 min |
| Nov 11, 4:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 34 min |
| Nov 11, 4:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Newton | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 4:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 5:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 59 min |
| Nov 11, 5:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 5:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton | 3 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 44 min |
| Nov 11, 5:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 5:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 7:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Nov 11, 7:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 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.