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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 3, 2000Carroll County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2000, 11:10 PM EST for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
Mar 3, 2000, 11:10 PM EST (04:10 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 2000, 11:45 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Carroll County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 65 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 040411
SVRATL
GAC045-040445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1110 PM EST FRI MAR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1145 PM EST

* AT 1109 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF BOWDON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST
  OF CARROLLTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CARROLLTON

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

LAT...LON 3362 8532 3346 8530 3348 8492 3366 8496

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 9:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee27 min
Mar 3, 10:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee33 min
Mar 3, 10:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Douglas, Fulton31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.