Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2002, 3:42 PM EDT for Henry County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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 10, 2002, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Henry County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 10, 4:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Mc Donough, GA | The public reported nickel 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 101942 SVRATL GAC151-102015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 342 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 339 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STOCKBRIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BLACKSVILLE...MCDONOUGH AND STOCKBRIDGE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3355 8425 3337 8429 3335 8412 3354 8413
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Walton | 46 min |
| May 10, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 35 min |
| May 10, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 34 min |
| May 10, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 29 min |
| May 10, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 24 min |
| May 10, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 28 min |
| May 10, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 25 min |
| May 10, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 44 min |
| May 10, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 25 min |
| May 10, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 47 min |
| May 10, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 25 min |
| May 10, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 37 min |
| May 10, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren | 32 min |
| May 10, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 29 min |
| May 10, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 37 min |
| May 10, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 34 min |
| May 10, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 43 min |
| May 10, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 26 min |
| May 10, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 35 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.