Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2002, 4:43 PM EST for Baker County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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, 4:43 PM EST (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2002, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baker County, GA, Mitchell County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 94 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 93 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 122143
SVRTLH
GAC007-205-122230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
443 PM EST TUE MAR 12 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN BAKER COUNTY IN GEORGIA
MITCHELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA
* UNTIL 530 PM EST...
* AT 443 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER
BRANCHVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMILLA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BRANCHVILLE...HOPEFUL BY 445 PM EST...
MITCHELL CO AIRPORT...PELHAM BY 450 PM EST...
CAMILLA...NEWTON BY 455 PM EST...
COTTON BY 500 PM EST...
FLINT...PEBBLE CITY BY 505 PM EST...
GREENOUGH...BACONTON BY 510 PM EST...
THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO
POSSIBLE.
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.
LAT...LON 3120 8444 3108 8441 3112 8405 3143 8401
3141 8430
.END
WATSONThe 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, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 35 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 |
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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.