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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 9:42 PM EST for Telfair County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 9:42 PM EST (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 10:15 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Telfair County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFFC 140246 SVRATL GAC209-271-309-140315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 942 PM EST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1015 PM EST * AT 937 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCRAE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MOUNT VERNON...GLENWOOD... ALAMO AND AILEY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 7 7 0 4 8 6 1 1 3 3 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 10:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 11:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Morgan, Oconee, Walton | 23 min |
| Feb 14, 1:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Spalding | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 1:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 33 min |
| Feb 14, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 33 min |
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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.