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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 22, 2000Bleckley County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 8:34 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2000, 8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Bleckley County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 9:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran, GA	An amateur radio operator reported 12 to 15 trees down on Macon highway, U.S. Highway 23/129. One tree was a pecan and the others were pines.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 644 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

842 
WUUS52 KFFC 230034
SVRATL
GAC023-230100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 829 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF COCHRAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  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.

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, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	26 min
Jun 22, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Johnson, Laurens	32 min
Jun 22, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	32 min
Jun 22, 9:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	34 min
Jun 22, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen	49 min
Jun 22, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.