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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 5:06 PM EDT for Oconee County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 25, 2000, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oconee County, GA
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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 252107 SVRATL GAC-219-252130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 506 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OCONEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 506 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF BOGART...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONROE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WATKINSVILLE 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.
The 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, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 34 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 |
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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.