Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 220
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 3, 2002, 5:30 AM CDT for Randolph County, Alabama; 55 counties in Georgia; Anderson County, Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2002, 5:30 AM CDT (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2002, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Randolph County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta 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, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison 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, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale 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, Anderson County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 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.
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 28 min |
| May 3, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Paulding | 19 min |
| May 3, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 30 min |
| May 3, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 33 min |
| May 3, 6:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 22 min |
| May 3, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 43 min |
| May 3, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 34 min |
| May 3, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 30 min |
| May 3, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 43 min |
| May 3, 7:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne, Randolph | 23 min |
| May 3, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 42 min |
| May 3, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Murray, Rabun, Towns and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 3, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bleckley, Burke, Emanuel, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg, York | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2002Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.