Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 3:31 PM EDT for Dodge County, Telfair County, Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 22, 2000, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dodge County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Wilcox County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
300 WUUS52 KFFC 221931 SVRATL GAC091-271-315-222000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 331 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA WILCOX COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 326 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF MILAN...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EASTMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES. LAT...LON 3197 8334 3186 8337 3182 8292 3204 8299
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach | 37 min |
| Jun 22, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 24 min |
| Jun 22, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 18 min |
| Jun 22, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 27 min |
| Jun 22, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 34 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.