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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 7, 2000Laurens County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 7:32 PM EDT for Laurens County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports 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, 7:32 PM EDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2000, 8:05 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Laurens County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 7, 7:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Grove, GA	The Laurens county 911 center reported several trees down.
Jul 7, 7:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Alamo, GA	The Wheeler county 911 center reported a few trees down.

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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 072333
SVRATL
GAC175-309-080005-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
732 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 805 PM EDT

* AT 727 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF ALAMO...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF SOPERTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

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 3Q 3 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.

LAT...LON 3227 8265 3234 8284 3218 8297 3203 8278

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, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	23 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.