Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2002, 4:40 PM EST for Decatur County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 12, 2002, 4:40 PM EST (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2002, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Decatur County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 122140 SVRTLH GAC087-122215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 439 PM EST TUE MAR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 515 PM EST... * AT 439 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OVER BIG SLOUGH BOAT LANDING...OR ABOUT OVER BAINBRIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BIG SLOUGH BOAT LANDING BY 445 PM EST... CLIMAX...MOUNT PLEASANT BY 450 PM EST... SURF BY 455 PM EST... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE OR BUSINESS IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3100 8458 3080 8457 3075 8438 3107 8440 .END 17-GOULD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Mar 12, 4:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Mar 12, 4:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 47 min |
| Mar 12, 5:55 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Mar 12, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 6:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 14 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.