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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 2:33 AM EST for Clayton 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 Clayton 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.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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.
- 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
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 | Butts | 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.