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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 28, 2002DeKalb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 9:53 PM EDT for DeKalb County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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, 9:53 PM EDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County DeKalb County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

357 
WFUS52 KFFC 290153
TORATL
GAC089-290230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
952 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 952 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER TUCKER...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO
  AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LITHONIA...PINE
LAKE...REDAN...STONE MOUNTAIN AND TUCKER.

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 3390 8422 3388 8428 3365 8415 3375 8404

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, 9:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	35 min
Apr 28, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	33 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.