Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 10:21 PM EDT for Dougherty County, Lee County, Worth 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, 10:21 PM EDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA, Worth County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 2362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
461 WUUS52 KTAE 040221 SVRTLH GAC095-177-321-040300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1020 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN GEORGIA LEE COUNTY IN GEORGIA WEST CENTRAL WORTH COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT... * AT 1020 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER RED ROCK...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYLVESTER...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE...PECAN CITY BY 1025 PM EDT... RADIUM SPRINGS BY 1030 PM EDT... TURNER CITY...EAST ALBANY BY 1035 PM EDT... ALBANY...SOUTHWEST GA REGIONAL A/P BY 1040 PM EDT... CENTURY...FORRESTER BY 1045 PM EDT... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3147 8391 3163 8380 3188 8422 3157 8436 .END 16-DYE
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, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Cook | 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
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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.