Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 9:40 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 28, 2002, 9:40 PM EDT (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gwinnett County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
528 WFUS52 KFFC 290140 TORATL GAC135-290215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 939 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT * AT 937 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER NORCROSS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BERKELEY LAKE...GRAYSON...LILBURN...NORCROSS AND SNELLVILLE. STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER NORCROSS AT 939 PM. 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 3401 8421 3395 8428 3378 8407 3390 8386
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 9:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 10:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 28 min |
| Apr 29, 12:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 1:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 2:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 2:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 3:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 36 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.