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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 2, 2002Dade County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2002, 7:58 PM EDT for Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 2, 2002, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2002, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dade County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1583 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 219 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1583 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
391 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.3
Supercell composite
10.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 022358
SVRATL
GAC083-030045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
758 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 758 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF TRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TRENTON.

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 3499 8562 3478 8557 3481 8544 3498 8539

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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.