Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 4:56 PM EDT for Gordon County, Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 3 reports 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 25, 2000, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Gordon County, GA, Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | La Fayette, GA | Walker county 911 reported trees down in extreme southeast Walker county near the Gordon county line near Pocket Road. |
| May 25, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dalton, GA | A ham radio operator reported a front awning and a front wall blown off a building 6.5 miles south of Dalton. |
| May 25, 5:22 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Dalton, GA | A ham radio operator reported dime size hail in Dalton. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 2105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
833
WUUS52 KFFC 252057
SVRATL
GAC129-213-313-252130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
456 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 530 PM EDT
* AT 456 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF DALTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CALHOUN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
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 3478 8505 3480 8506 3480 8507 3481 8506
3482 8513 3473 8516 3471 8505 3455 8507
3456 8466 3475 8468 3473 8485 3478 8489
3478 8490 3479 8491The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 41 min |
| May 25, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 34 min |
| May 25, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 24 min |
| May 25, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Hall | 30 min |
| May 25, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton | 38 min |
| May 25, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Putnam | 36 min |
| May 25, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Oconee | 36 min |
| May 25, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 27 min |
| May 25, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 37 min |
| May 25, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 33 min |
| May 25, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 27 min |
| May 25, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 27 min |
| May 25, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.