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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 20, 2000Bartow County, Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2000, 5:03 PM EDT for Bartow County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. 4 reports 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 20, 2000, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bartow County, GA, Polk County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 20, 5:12 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Euharlee, GA	Several public reports indicated large hail fell across west and central Bartow county. Reported sizes ranged from three-quarter inch to as large as golf balls.
May 20, 5:16 PM EDT	Hail 1.25	Aragon, GA	The public reported half dollar size hail on the Polk-Bartow county line.
May 20, 5:30 PM EDT	Hail 2.75	Cartersville, GA	Numerous reports from the public indicated large hail continued in the Cartersville area. Most reports were of dime to golf ball size, but one indicated baseball size hail. A window was broken southeast of Cartersville.
May 20, 5:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cartersville, GA	The public reported thunderstorm winds knocked down a privacy fence and several trees, and caused roof damage between Euharlee and Cartersville.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 20, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 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 202103
SVRATL
GAC015-233-202130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
503 PM EDT SAT MAY 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 503 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF EUHARLEE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  EAST OF LINDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE KINGSTON AND ADAIRSVILLE

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ATRE 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 20, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	33 min
May 20, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	29 min
May 20, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer	28 min
May 20, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	32 min
May 20, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	48 min
May 20, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer	35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.