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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 9, 2002Gwinnett County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2002, 5:51 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2002, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Gwinnett County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 092151
SVRATL
GAC135-092215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
551 PM EDT THU MAY 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 539 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SUGAR HILL...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BERKELEY
LAKE...BUFORD...DACULA...DULUTH...GRAYSON...LAWRENCEVILLE...REST
HAVEN...SUGAR HILL AND SUWANEE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH CAN BE 
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

THIS STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN
LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS CAN CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. 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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton	27 min
May 9, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall	24 min
May 9, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	14 min
May 9, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	21 min
May 9, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.