Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2002, 6:50 PM EST for Decatur County, Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 100 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2002, 6:50 PM EST (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2002, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 100 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:35 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Northeast Portion, GA | Dime size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 032350 SVRTLH GAC087-131-040030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 649 PM EST WED APR 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA WESTERN GRADY COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 730 PM EST... * AT 649 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 2 MILES EAST OF FOWLSTOWN...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAINBRIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 730 PM EST... FOWLSTOWN...ATTAPULGUS... CLIMAX... CALVARY... BOYDVILLE...NICKLEVILLE... WHIGHAM... THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. LAT...LON 3093 8461 3071 8466 3070 8429 3096 8431 .END 7-TREXLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 5:26 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Apr 3, 5:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 2 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.