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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 3, 2000Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 6:01 PM EDT for Monroe 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2000, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Monroe County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 032203
SVRATL
GAC207-032230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
601 PM EDT WED MAY 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF FORSYTH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BLOUNT AND HIGH 
  FALLS.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

LAT...LON 3311 8380 3321 8393 3321 8404 3297 8404
          3296 8380

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	32 min
May 3, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas	23 min
May 3, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	24 min
May 3, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas	35 min
May 3, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	45 min
May 3, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	47 min
May 3, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Spalding	31 min
May 3, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard	53 min
May 3, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	52 min
May 3, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	50 min
May 3, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	51 min
May 3, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	45 min
May 3, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	29 min
May 3, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	32 min
May 3, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	36 min
May 3, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	30 min
May 3, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	41 min

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.