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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 11, 2000Crisp County, Dooly County, Sumter County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 3:22 PM EDT for Crisp County, Dooly County, Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 min. 3 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 11, 2000, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Sumter County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 11, 3:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Coney, GA	The Cordele Dispatch reported that a tree was blown down on a house on Lakeshore Drive at Lake Blackshear, causing considerable damage to the roof. In addition, lightning knocked down a tree on Coney road, causing it to block the road.
Jul 11, 3:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Drayton, GA	The Dooly county 911 center reported that a power pole was knocked down on Georgia Highway 27 at Drayton Road.
Jul 11, 4:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordele, GA	Crisp county 911 reported 10 trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.

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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 111925
SVRATL
GAC081-093-261-112000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM VIENNA TO 24 MILES
  WEST OF CORDELE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE LESLIE...COBB...
  AND WENONA.

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 3AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.

LAT...LON 3182 8381 3194 8361 3209 8361 3220 8378
          3192 8430 3191 8393 3185 8393

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	26 min
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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.