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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 4, 2002Quitman County, Randolph County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 3:22 PM EDT for Quitman County, Randolph County, Georgia. It was in force for 83 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: Jun 4, 2002, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 83 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 1408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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.

593 
WUUS52 KTAE 041922
SVRTLH
GAC239-243-041945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
320 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN QUITMAN COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  WESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

* AT 320 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF UNION...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING
  NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  UNION BY 325 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 3183 8508 3183 8486 3215 8484 3214 8511

.END

48-TURNAGE

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 3, 10:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Worth	18 hr
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.