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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 7, 2000Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 7:07 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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: Jul 7, 2000, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Laurens County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 7, 7:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Minter, GA	The Laurens county 911 center reported extensive damage to a home. The roof was blown off and the house sustained considerable additional damage.

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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 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 072310
SVRATL
GAC175-072330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
707 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 704 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF RENTZ...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF DUBLIN...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DEXTER AND CADWELL

QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT MINTER AND ROCKLEDGE AROUND 7PM BY 
DUBLIN 911. TREES WERE ALSO REPORTED BLOWN DOWN AT MINTER.  

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM
PASSES.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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.

LAT...LON 3244 8269 3258 8279 3242 8314 3220 8298

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens	33 min
Jul 7, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Wheeler	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.