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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 14, 2000Butts County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 2:33 AM EST for Butts County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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: Feb 14, 2000, 2:33 AM EST (07:33 UTC)
Expired: Feb 14, 2000, 3:00 AM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Butts County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 13, 11:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 384 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 528 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFFC 140736
SVRATL
GAC035-063-151-217-247-140800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
233 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BUTTS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  EASTERN CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 300 AM EST

* AT 229 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF BLACKSVILLE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  WEST OF MCDONOUGH...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE STOCKBRIDGE...PORTERDALE AND
  MCDONOUGH

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 D8AMAGE 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 3352 8433 3335 8428 3342 8384 3364 8391

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 9:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	33 min
Feb 13, 9:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery	33 min
Feb 13, 10:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	32 min
Feb 13, 11:13 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Forsyth	32 min
Feb 14, 12:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Morgan, Oconee, Walton	23 min
Feb 14, 1:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Spalding	32 min
Feb 14, 1:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	32 min
Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Newton, Rockdale	27 min
Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton	27 min
Feb 14, 2:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Morgan, Newton	33 min
Feb 14, 2:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Putnam	33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.