Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 6:13 PM EDT for Decatur County, Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 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 4, 2002, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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.
835 WUUS52 KTAE 042213 SVRTLH GAC087-131-042245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 613 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA WEST CENTRAL GRADY COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT... * AT 613 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER RENO... OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAIRO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WHIGHAM BY 620 PM EDT... BOYDVILLE BY 625 PM EDT... CLIMAX BY 635 PM EDT... FOWLSTOWN BY 640 PM EDT... THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL. LAT...LON 3071 8433 3085 8426 3093 8439 3080 8459 .END 22-BARRY
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, 3:22 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.