Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 21, 2000Baldwin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2000, 2:18 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 21, 2000, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2000, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baldwin County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 21, 2:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Milledgeville, GA	The Baldwin county Sheriff reported several trees were blown down on the south side of Milledgeville. Also, the local Milledgeville newspaper reported that a tree and two utility poles were knocked down on Georgia Highway 49.

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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 231 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

138 
WUUS52 KFFC 211818
SVRATL
GAC009-211845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
218 PM EDT WED JUN 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 212 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MILLEDGEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MIDWAY-HARDWICK

DAMAGING WINDS HAIL 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 3310 8338 3297 8323 3304 8307 3317 8322

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	38 min
Jun 21, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wheeler	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.