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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 205, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 2000Montgomery County, Treutlen County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2000, 4:34 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Treutlen 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 26, 2000, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Treutlen County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 26, 4:45 PM EDTHail 0.75Soperton, GAThe 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, 8.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 85 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
315 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000

LATE DUE LATE GUIDANCE.
OF AVAILABLE GUIDANCE, PREVIOUS TREDNS CONTINUE OF STRONG NOTRERLIES
WITH A SERIES OF SW WAVES CARVING OUT A TROF OVER THE MS VALLEY BY
END OF PERIOD. ASSOCIATE FRONT MOVES INTO TN VALLY TUE AND STALLS
THRU WEDNESDAY. THUS HIGHEST POPS N.
LITTLE CHANGE IN THICKNESS BUT SLIGHT COOLING OF TEMPS DUE SLIGHT
INCREASE CLOUDS AND PREIP.

ATL 70/90/70/87/69 14353  AHN 69/90/69/85/68 14353
RMG 67/90/69/83/67 14353  CSG 71/91/73/89/71 23242
MCN 69/91/70/89/69 23243

.ATL...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris35 min
Jun 26, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel29 min
Jun 26, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson, Laurens, Treutlen32 min
Jun 26, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkinson35 min
Jun 26, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones29 min
Jun 26, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson, Washington23 min
Jun 26, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair, Wheeler26 min

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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.