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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 5:34 PM EDT for Glascock County, Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2000, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Glascock County, GA, Washington 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, 9.6 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
532 WUUS52 KFFC 222135 SVRATL GAC125-303-222200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 534 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 NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF GIBSON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANDERSVILLE. THE STORM SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. 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.
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, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 24 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.