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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 20, 2000Fannin County, Gilmer County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2000, 6:55 PM EDT for Fannin County, Gilmer County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 20, 2000, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fannin County, GA, Gilmer 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
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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.

848 
WUUS52 KFFC 202254
SVRATL
TTAA00 KATL 202252

GAC111-123-202330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
655 PM EDT SAT MAY 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN FANNIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  EASTERN GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 652 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN GILMER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 21
  MILES WEST OF DAHLONEGA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM
PASSES.

LAT...LON 3466 8440 3461 8431 3477 8413 3484 8421

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, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Polk	27 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

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.