Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 3:46 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama; Early County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2002, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Houston County, AL, Early County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 042046 SVRTLH ALC069-GAC099-042115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 346 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA SOUTHWESTERN EARLY COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 415 PM CDT(515 PM EDT)... * AT 346 PM CDT(446 PM EDT) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER JAKIN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF DONALSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KILLARNEY...CROSBY BY 350 PM CDT... SAFFOLD...HOWARDS MILL BY 455 PM EDT... GORDON...CEDAR SPRINGS BY 510 PM EDT... JOSEPH M. FARLEY NUCLEAR PLANT...PANSEY BY 415 PM CDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. .END 48-TURNAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 92 min |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift | 18 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Cook | 18 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee, Worth | 18 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Quitman, Randolph | 83 min |
| Jun 4, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Quitman | 90 min |
| Jun 4, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Terrell | 73 min |
| Jun 4, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Early | 76 min |
| Jun 4, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 82 min |
| Jun 4, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 10 days |
| Jun 4, 6:34 PM CDT | 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.