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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 22, 2000Glascock County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 5:06 PM EDT for Glascock County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Glascock 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 712 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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.

436 
WUUS52 KFFC 222103
SVRATL
MRF-BASED OBJECTIVE GUIDANCE   6/21/00  0000 UTC

ATL   WED 21| THU 22| FRI 23| SAT 24| SUN 25| MON 26| TUE 27| WED 28| CLIMO
MN/MX     89| 72  87| 70  89| 71  89| 70  85| 69  86| 69  83| 69  85| 68  87
POP12     45| 37  56| 46  24| 14  24| 22  30| 22  31| 27  27| 22  27| 18  24
CLDS      63| 70  69| 58  47| 38  50| 49  57| 50  58| 51  57| 47  54| 42  48
WIND       8|  7   8|  6   6|  6   7|  6   8|  6   8|  7   8|  6   8|  6   7
POP24       |   70  |   56  |   31  |   41  |   42  |   43  |   39  |   33
  
FOXS42 KWBC 210000
MRF-BASED OBJECTIVE GUIDANCE   6/21/00  0000 UTC

AHN   WED 21| THU 22| FRI 23| SAT 24| SUN 25| MON 26| TUE 27| WED 28| CLIMO
MN/MX     88| 70  85| 68  89| 67  89| 68  86| 68  86| 68  85| 67  85| 67  88
POP12     46| 38  60| 49  26| 15  24| 22  30| 22  31| 24  26| 21  26| 17  23
CLDS      65| 71  74| 61  51| 39  50| 49  57| 49  57| 49  55| 47  53| 42  47
WIND       6|  4   7|  4   5|  3   5|  4   7|  4   6|  4   6|  4   6|  4   6
POP24       |   73  |   60  |   31  |   41  |   42  |   40  |   38  |   31
  
FOXS42 KWBC 210000

GAC125-222130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
503 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GLASCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 458 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF GIBSON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF THOMSON...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM
PASSES.

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 3326 8281 3314 8266 3322 8257 3330 8256

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, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	29 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.