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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 3, 2000Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2000, 9:48 PM EST for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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: Mar 3, 2000, 9:48 PM EST (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2000, 10:15 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 3, 10:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Cusseta, GA	The Cusseta Police Department reported power lines were blown down, causing power outages.

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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2052 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 288 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 040249
SVRATL
GAC053-215-040315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
948 PM EST FRI MAR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHATTAHOOCHEE AND SOUTHERN MUSCOGEE COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL 
GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 1015 PM EST

* AT 843 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF CUSSETA...OR ABOUT 3 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FORT BENNING SOUTH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

LAT...LON 3246 8498 3227 8491 3230 8466 3249 8468

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 10:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	33 min
Mar 3, 10:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Fulton	31 min
Mar 3, 11:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	35 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.