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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 6:03 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gwinnett County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:15 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Dacula, GA | The public reported dime to golfball size hail in Dacula. |
| May 25, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dacula, GA | The public reported 1 tree and several limbs blown down on Fence Road. |
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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 252203 SVRATL GAC135-252230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 603 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 603 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF LAWRENCEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SUWANEE...SUGAR HILL... SNELLVILLE...LILBURN...DULUTH...DACULA...BUFORD AND BERKELEY LAKE 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 3397 8423 3377 8404 3393 8384 3415 8400
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, 5:37 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, 6:08 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.