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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 3, 2002Cook County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT for Cook County, Georgia. It was in force for 18 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cook County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 17 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: 742 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

340 
WUUS52 KTAE 040200
SVRTLH
GAC075-040230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1002 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL COOK COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT...

* AT 1000 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER
  LACONTE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF ADEL...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SPARKS BY 1005 PM EDT...
  ADEL...COOK CO AIRPORT BY 1010 PM EDT...
  PINE VALLEY...GREGGS BY 1025 PM EDT...

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.

LAT...LON 3123 8334 3124 8352 3106 8353 3105 8332
          3116 8333

.END

22-BARRY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift	18 hr
Jun 3, 10:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Worth	18 hr
Jun 4, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Quitman, Randolph	83 min
Jun 4, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Quitman	90 min
Jun 4, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Terrell	73 min
Jun 4, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early	76 min
Jun 4, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	29 min
Jun 4, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	82 min
Jun 4, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	32 min
Jun 4, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	2 hr
Jun 4, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	10 days
Jun 4, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	10 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.