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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 21, 2000Douglas County, Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2000, 8:01 PM EDT for Douglas County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Douglas County, GA, Fulton County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 21, 8:06 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Douglasville, GA	Dime size hail was reported by a Fire Station in Douglasville and by the public in Lithia Springs.

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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

937 
WUUS52 KFFC 220003
SVRATL
GAC097-121-220030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 801 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF DOUGLASVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE UNION CITY...LITHIA
  SPRINGS...EAST POINT AND ATLANTA

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE 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.

LAT...LON 3378 8479 3359 8481 3355 8453 3380 8435

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard	38 min
May 21, 9:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	29 min
May 21, 10:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Spalding	32 min
May 22, 10:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wheeler	34 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.