Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2002, 6:54 PM EDT for Baker County, Dougherty County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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 30, 2002, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2002, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baker County, GA, Dougherty 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 883 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
395 WUUS52 KTAE 302254 SVRTLH GAC007-095-302325- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 652 PM EDT TUE APR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN GEORGIA NORTHERN BAKER COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 725 PM EDT... * AT 650 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 3 MILES WEST OF DUCKER...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF MORGAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PRETORIA BY 700 PM EDT... LOCKETT CROSSING BY 705 PM EDT... RED STORE CROSSROADS BY 710 PM EDT... DEWITT...PUTNEY BY 715 PM EDT... THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL. .END 22-BARRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 83 min |
| Apr 30, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 74 min |
| Apr 30, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Early | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 11 days |
| Apr 30, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 13 days |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.