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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 179

April 28, 20024 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 28, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 95 counties

Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Randolph County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Tishomingo County, MS, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Oconee County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Stephens	44 min
Apr 28, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	46 min
Apr 28, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Fulton	31 min
Apr 28, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	30 min
Apr 28, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Limestone	27 min
Apr 28, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	48 min
Apr 28, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Franklin	31 min
Apr 28, 8:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Hart	39 min
Apr 28, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	DeKalb, Jackson	66 min
Apr 28, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	35 min
Apr 28, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	33 min
Apr 28, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	DeKalb	37 min
Apr 28, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	50 min
Apr 28, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	48 min
Apr 28, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Rockdale, Walton	42 min
Apr 28, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	41 min
Apr 28, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	47 min
Apr 28, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	23 min
Apr 28, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	53 min
Apr 28, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Etowah	33 min
Apr 28, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	26 min
Apr 28, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	28 min
Apr 28, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Newton, Walton	25 min
Apr 28, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	50 min
Apr 28, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	33 min
Apr 28, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	28 min
Apr 28, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	29 min
Apr 28, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	25 min
Apr 28, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	26 min
Apr 28, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	43 min

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 6.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 17 more	4 hr
Apr 29, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 5 more	5 hr
Apr 29, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bolivar, Coahoma, Humphreys, Leflore, Quitman, Sunflower and 2 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002

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.