Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 7:34 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2000, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gwinnett County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:40 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Norcross, GA | Several reports of dime to quarter size hail were received from the public from the south side of Norcross and from the Peachtree Industrial Boulevard area of Norcross. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 032335 SVRATL GAC135-040015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 734 PM EDT WED MAY 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 734 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF LILBURN...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF TUCKER...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE NORCROSS...MOUNTAIN PARK... DULUTH AND BERKELEY LAKE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 29 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.