Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2002, 3:58 AM EDT for Chattooga County, Floyd County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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, 3:58 AM EDT (07:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2002, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chattooga County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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, 4:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Trion, GA | The Summerville News reported that several trees and some power lines were down by thunderstorm winds in the Trion and Subligna-Dry Creek communities. Two mobile homes were severely damaged by large trees which fell on them. |
| May 1, 4:05 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Armuchee, GA | The Floyd county 911 center reported that trees were down at the intersection of Georgia Highway 156 and Haywood Valley Road. The Rome News Tribune reported that extensive damage occurred to Camp Sydney Dew, a Boy Scout Retreat Camp. Debris from trees and ot |
| May 1, 4:15 AM EDT | Tornado F1 | Calhoun, GA | A National Weather Disaster Survey team observed that a weak F0 to F1 tornado made two touchdowns, one just southwest and another just east of downtown Calhoun. These tornado spinups occurred on the south side of a southeastward moving thunderstorm macroburst |
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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 010758 SVRATL GAC055-115-129-010845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 358 AM EDT WED MAY 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA NORTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WESTERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 AM EDT * AT 356 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES WEST OF RESACA TO MENLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...CALHOUN... LYERLY...MENLO...PLAINVILLE...RESACA...SHANNON...SUMMERVILLE AND TRION. 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 3460 8484 3455 8562 3424 8541 3428 8508
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 29 min |
| 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, 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.