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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 12:22 AM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 23 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
- Feb 14, 2000, 12:22 AM EST (05:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Barrow County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 528 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFFC 140525 SVRATL GAC013-211-219-297-140545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1222 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BARROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHEASTERN WALTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1245 AM EST * AT 1220 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF MONROE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED bWITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES. LAT...LON 3397 8375 3381 8385 3358 8342 3378 8329
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 9:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 10:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 11:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 1:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Spalding | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 1:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 33 min |
| Feb 14, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.