Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2002, 5:58 PM EST for Dougherty County, Lee County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Mar 31, 2002, 5:58 PM EST (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 312258 SVRTLH GAC095-177-312315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 558 PM EST SUN MAR 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN LEE COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 615 PM EST... * AT 558 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER PRETORIA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBANY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 615 PM EST... PRETORIA...WALKER... LOCKETT CROSSING... SOUTHWEST GA REGIONAL A/P... ALBANY...PALMYRA... THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3151 8444 3144 8431 3159 8402 3174 8420 .END 5-MOLLERE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Worth | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:50 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 115 min | |
| Mar 31, 5:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 84 min |
| Mar 31, 6:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 6:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 53 min |
| Mar 31, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 6:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Worth | 66 min |
| Mar 31, 6:26 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Mar 31, 6:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 70 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 70 hr |
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.