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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 25, 2000Cherokee County, Cobb County, Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Cobb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 min. 2 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, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cherokee County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Fulton County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 25, 5:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Roswell, GA	The public reported two trees down in Roswell.
May 25, 6:15 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Alpharetta, GA	The public reported a large amount of dime size hail in Alpharetta.

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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 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

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The text

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

276 
WUUS52 KFFC 252138
SVRATL
GAC057-067-121-252215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
537 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 537 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WOODSTOCK...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ROSWELL...KENNESAW...HOLLY
  SPRINGS AND ALPHARETTA

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 3423 8463 3397 8467 3396 8427 3424 8428

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, 5:06 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, 5:39 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.