Thunderstorm Wind, Pickens
- When
- June 6, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Pickens County, Jasper
- Property damage
- $500
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
- Coordinates
- 34.467, -84.417
Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 6, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $500
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 9:30 AM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 9:30 AM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1030 AM EDT WED JUN 6 2001 JUST A QUICK UPDATE TO CHANGE WORDING FOR SOUTHERN GROUP FROM RAIN AND THUNDER TO SHOWERS AND THUNDER. OTHERWISE FORECAST LOOKS PRETTY GOOD SO NO CHANGES. 12Z SOUNDING SHOWS INSTABILITY SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY...WITH LITTLE OR NO CHANGE IN THE TEMPERATURE PROFILE UP THROUGH 500 MB. EXPECT SCATTERED AFTERNOON CONVECTION WITH ONLY A FEW ISOLAT6ED STORMS APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS. .ATL... GA...NONE. MSS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:44 AM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-061745- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1144 AM EDT WED JUN 6 2001 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .SYNOPSIS... WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER GEORGIA THROUGH THURSDAY. .PRIMARY HAZARD... THE PRIMARY HAZARD WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BRIEF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE AND ALSO SOME SMALL HAIL. .DISCUSSION... MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS OVER THE STATE. CAPES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 800 TO 1500 THIS AFTERNOON. THIS COULD RESULT IN A FEW THUNDERSTORMS BRIEFLY APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS. HOWEVER NO ORGANIZED AREAS OF SEVERE WEATHER ARE EXPECTED DUE TO LACK OF LOW LEVEL BOUNDARIES TO FOCUS DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE SEVERAL HOURS PAST SUNSET. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR PWEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/FFC.
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:55 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 6, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 6, 2001
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 6, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Virginia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 6, 2001
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5256461.