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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 6:12 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Georgia. It was in force for 18 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, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jefferson 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 207 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.
455 WUUS52 KFFC 222212 SVRATL GAC163-222230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 612 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 609 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF WRENS...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT GORDON...MOVING EAST 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 3322 8246 3309 8230 3334 8197 3350 8216
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, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 26 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.