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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 22, 2000Bleckley County, Twiggs County, Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 7:56 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Twiggs County, Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Wilkinson 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.

582 
WUUS52 KFFC 222356
SVRATL
GAC023-289-319-230030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 749 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER JEFFERSONVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF
  ROBINS AFB...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK
DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW.

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, 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

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.