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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 11, 2000Peach County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 1:19 PM EDT for Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2000, 1:19 PM EDT (17:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2000, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Peach County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 111721
SVRATL
GAC225-111745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
119 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 114 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FORT VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FAGAN...MYRTLE...AND MIAMI
  VALLEY.

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 SERVICE
AT 7 7 0 4 8 6 1 1 3 3 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.

LAT...LON 3245 8382 3252 8377 3253 8372 3261 8373
          3263 8385 3254 8394 3252 8401 3250 8395
          3252 8391

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 Jul 11, 10:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 10:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1045 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000

LINGERING SHRA/TSRA OVER S CENTRAL CWA IN AREA OF SFC CONVERGENCE.
AIR VERY JUICY TODAY WITH CAPES 3500-4000 J/KG AND PRECIPITABLE
WATER OVER 1.50 INCHES. 12Z MESO-ETA SHOWS VORT CENTER OVER CENTRAL
ALABAMA AT 21Z THIS AFTERNOON. 850MB THETA-E MAXIMA ON RUC AND
MESO-ETA SHOWS UP OVER TN/N ALABAMA INTO N AND E GA AT 21Z. NOT A
REAL ORGANIZED PATTERN...AND NO REAL KICKER SHOWING UP THIS
AFTERNOON. THERE IS WEAK DIVERGENCE AT 300 MB AND A COOL POOL AT
500MB OVER S IL/W TN. THE LATER MAY ONLY BE THE RESULT OF THE MCS
OVER ILLINOIS THOUGH. WOULD EXPECT MORE CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON 
THAN YESTERDAY ONCE CONVECTIVE TEMP IN LOW 90S IS ATTAINED. WON'T
MESS MUCH WITH ONGOING FORECAST...BUT WILL UPDATE TO HEADLINE HEAT
INDICES NEAR 105 THIS AFTERNOON MOST AREAS.

.ATL...NONE.

DH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Peach	31 min
Jul 11, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	30 min
Jul 11, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	31 min
Jul 11, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Sumter	38 min
Jul 11, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	23 min
Jul 11, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry	45 min
Jul 11, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Washington	48 min
Jul 11, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	28 min
Jul 11, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.