Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2002, 5:01 AM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2002, 5:01 AM EDT (09:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2002, 5:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 010901 SVRATL GAC117-121-135-139-010930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 501 AM EDT WED MAY 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 530 AM EDT * AT 456 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF CUMMING TO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSWELL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... ALPHARETTA...BERKELEY LAKE...BUFORD...CUMMING...DULUTH...FLOWERY BRANCH...LILBURN...NORCROSS...REST HAVEN...ROSWELL...SUGAR HILL AND SUWANEE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 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 3434 8412 3405 8441 3386 8416 3413 8386
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, 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.