Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2000, 2:27 PM EDT for Bibb County, Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 12, 2000, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bibb County, GA, Twiggs County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 778 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 121829 SVRATL GAC021-289-121900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 227 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 223 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF JEFFERSONVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROBINS AFB...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SMITHSONIA... DRY BRANCH...FITZPATRICK...AND BULLARD. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN BE AS DESTRUCTIVE AS A TORNADO. FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. 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 3259 8324 3290 8342 3278 8368 3255 8333
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 39 min |
| Jul 12, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry, Spalding | 28 min |
| Jul 12, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 28 min |
| Jul 12, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 33 min |
| Jul 12, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 26 min |
| Jul 12, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Spalding | 34 min |
| Jul 12, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wilkinson | 26 min |
| Jul 12, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Macon | 50 min |
| Jul 12, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 22 min |
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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.