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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 17, 2000Crisp County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2000, 5:43 PM EDT for Crisp County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Crisp County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 17, 6:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele, GA	The Crisp county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down on Presley Road. Another tree was blown down on a house on Canary street.

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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.

590 
WUUS52 KFFC 172144
SVRATL
GAC081-172215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CORDELE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.


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

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO NOT USE 
TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

LAT...LON 3191 8387 3181 8369 3203 8361 3201 8378

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	36 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.