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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 22, 2000Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2000, 10:11 AM EDT for Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 2000, 10:11 AM EDT (14:11 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2000, 10:45 AM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Wheeler County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 510 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

110 
WUUS52 KFFC 221412
SVRATL
GAC309-221445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1011 AM EDT MON MAY 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EDT

* AT 1011 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF ALAMO...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH
  OF MCRAE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GLENWOOD

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  4 MILES SOUTH OF GLENWOOD AT 1030 AM EDT

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas, Fulton29 min
May 21, 9:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Heard38 min
May 21, 9:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette29 min
May 21, 10:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette, Spalding32 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.