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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 376, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 24, 2002Telfair County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 24, 2002, 10:04 AM EST for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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: Dec 24, 2002, 10:04 AM EST (15:04 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2002, 10:45 AM EST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Telfair County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 24, 10:30 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Mc Rae, GA	The Telfair county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down and a couple of power lines on County Road 91.

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
Dec 24, 9:20 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

161 
WUUS52 KFFC 241504
SVRATL
GAC271-241545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1003 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EST

* AT 1001 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH        
  LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF JACKSONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  JACKSONVILLE...MCRAE AND SCOTLAND.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY 
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER 
CONDITIONS.

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 3198 8312 3178 8316 3181 8270 3204 8278
          3208 8295

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 24, 8:35 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	3 hr
Dec 24, 8:40 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb	4 hr
Dec 24, 9:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	2 hr
Dec 24, 9:13 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	47 min

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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.