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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 20, 2000Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2000, 8:13 PM EDT for Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 8:13 PM EDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carroll County, GA, Haralson 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 2397 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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.

924 
WUUS52 KFFC 210014
SVRATL
GAC045-143-210045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  SOUTHWESTERN HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 813 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TALLAPOOSA...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES EAST OF HEFLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUCHANAN AND BREMEN

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

LAT...LON 3370 8553 3354 8544 3367 8509 3384 8520

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	25 min
May 21, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas	45 min
May 21, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray	41 min
May 21, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton	36 min
May 21, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale	27 min
May 21, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Henry	33 min
May 21, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette, Fulton	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.