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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 25, 2000Madison County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 6:33 PM EDT for Madison County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2000, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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
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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.

132 
WUUS52 KFFC 252234
SVRATL
GAC195-221-317-252300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
  NORTHERN OGLETHORPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 633 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF CRAWFORD...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  EAST OF GAINES SCHOOL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE COMER

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 3406 8322 3388 8322 3385 8275 3408 8275

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, 6:03 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	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.