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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 21, 2000Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT for Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 21, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 21, 3:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Sand Hill, GA	Carroll county 911 reported power lines blown down between Villa Rica and Carrollton.

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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 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.

583 
WUUS52 KFFC 211915
SVRATL
GAC045-097-212000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
315 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VILLA RICA...OR ABOUT 6
  MILES NORTH OF CARROLLTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DOUGLASVILLE.

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

LAT...LON 3376 8503 3362 8509 3365 8475 3377 8474

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	32 min
May 21, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.