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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 3, 2000Gordon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 6:16 PM EDT for Gordon 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, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Gordon County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 032218
SVRATL
GAC129-032245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 616 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF RANGER...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST
  OF CALHOUN...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE RESACA...REDBUD

LARGE HAIL 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.

LAT...LON 3440 8488 3447 8468 3460 8478 3458 8501

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta32 min
May 3, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Douglas23 min
May 3, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPolk24 min
May 3, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas35 min
May 3, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta45 min
May 3, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Paulding47 min
May 3, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Spalding31 min
May 3, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Heard53 min
May 3, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether52 min
May 3, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow50 min
May 3, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee51 min
May 3, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton45 min
May 3, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe29 min
May 3, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe32 min
May 3, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts36 min
May 3, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb30 min
May 3, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.