Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 1:28 AM EST for Butts County, Henry County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 14, 2000, 1:28 AM EST (06:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butts County, GA, Henry County, GA, Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 140631 SVRATL GAC035-151-231-255-140700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 128 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN BUTTS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA SPALDING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 200 AM EST * AT 124 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF GRIFFIN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF PEACHTREE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MCDONOUGH...LOCUST GROVE... HAMPTON...EXPERIMENT...EAST GRIFFIN AND BLACKSVILLE WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Morgan, Oconee, Walton | 23 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 |
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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.