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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 21, 2000Clayton County, DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2000, 4:39 PM EDT for Clayton County, DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 21, 2000, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clayton County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Fulton County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 33 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 212040
SVRATL
GAC063-089-121-212115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
439 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHWESTERN DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 439 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST POINT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PANTHERSVILLE...MORROW...
  LAKE CITY...HAPEVILLE...GRESHAM PARK...FOREST PARK...CONLEY...  
COLLEGE PARK AND CANDLER-MCAFEE.

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 8456 3358 8459 3357 8428 E3374 8426

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, 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, 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.