Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2002, 4:13 PM EDT for Clayton County, DeKalb County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2002, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clayton County, GA, DeKalb County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 4:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Jonesboro, GA | The public reported quarter size hail. |
| May 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Emory University, GA | The public reported dime to quarter size hail at and near Emory University, in the North Decatur area. |
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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 102013 SVRATL GAC063-089-102100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 413 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 409 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CANDLER-MCAFEE...GRESHAM PARK...LAKE CITY...MORROW AND PANTHERSVILLE. 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.
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, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 33 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, 4:20 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.