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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 1, 2002Dade County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2002, 3:01 AM EDT for Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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: May 1, 2002, 3:01 AM EDT (07:01 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2002, 3:30 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dade County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 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
May 1, 3:19 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wildwood, GA	The Dade county 911 center reported that some trees were down.
May 1, 3:19 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Wildwood, GA	The Dade county 911 center reported dime size hail.

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 010701
SVRATL
GAC083-010730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
301 AM EDT WED MAY 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 AM EDT

* AT 201 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH   
LOCATED FROM 26 MILES WEST OF TRENTON TO 19 MILES NORTH OF   
TRENTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...TRENTON.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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 3506 8609 3527 8542 3500 8536 3463 8552
          3454 8589

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 3:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker	33 min
May 1, 3:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	20 min
May 1, 3:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon	47 min
May 1, 4:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens	38 min
May 1, 4:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	34 min
May 1, 5:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall	29 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.