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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 2000Emanuel County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2000, 4:16 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2000, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Emanuel County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 4:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Swainsboro, GA	The public reported dime size hail.

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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -845 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 262015
SVRATL
GAC107-262045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
416 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF SWAINSBORO...MOVING
  NORTHWEST AT 15 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 SERVeICE
AT 7 7 0 4 8 6 1 1 3 3 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.

LAT...LON 3252 8236 3260 8217 3282 8228 3273 8246

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	35 min
Jun 26, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Treutlen	26 min
Jun 26, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen	32 min
Jun 26, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	35 min
Jun 26, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	29 min
Jun 26, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	23 min
Jun 26, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	26 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.