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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 17, 2000Hall County, White County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2000, 7:35 PM EDT for Hall County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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: Jun 17, 2000, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Hall County, GA, White County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.

770 
WUUS52 KFFC 172336
SVRATL
GAC139-311-180000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 735 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF CLERMONT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  WEST OF CORNELIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE CLERMONT.

WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK
DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW.

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS DANGEROUS
STORM. A TORNADO COULD ALSO FORM WITH LITTLE WARNING. SEEK SHELTER
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.

LAT...LON 3449 8383 3437 8368 3449 8366 3463 8366

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, 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

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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.