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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 17, 2000Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2000, 5:24 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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: Jun 17, 2000, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Laurens County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 17, 5:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Dublin, GA	The Laurens county 911 center reported several trees were blown down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

513 
WUUS52 KFFC 172125
SVRATL
GAC175-172200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
524 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 524 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUBLIN...MOVING NORTH AT
  15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE EAST DUBLIN.

DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

LAT...LON 3234 8298 3238 8273 3267 8280 3264 8307

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp	32 min
Jun 17, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	40 min
Jun 17, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	37 min
Jun 17, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	30 min
Jun 17, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall, White	25 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.