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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 8:02 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 43 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2000, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bartow County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 8:02 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Countywide, GA | The Rome News Tribune reported that trees and power lines were down countywide. |
| Jul 20, 8:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Countywide, GA | The Cartersville Daily News Tribune, the Marietta Daily Journal, and the public reported numerous trees down, some on roads and power lines, throughout the county. Some of the hardest hit areas were Cartersville, Atco, and the Apache Woods subdivision near Lak |
| Jul 20, 8:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Dalton, GA | The public and an amateur radio operator reported numerous trees down throughout the city of Dalton and just east of Dalton in the Lakeview Estates area. The Dalton Public Works Department reported that about 12 homes were damaged in Dalton when trees fell on |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 532 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
977 WUUS52 KFFC 210003 SVRATL GAC015-129-213-313-210045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 802 PM EDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 759 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM TUNNEL HILL TO 12 MILES WEST OF EUHARLEE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE KINGSTON...FAIRMOUNT... EMERSON...DALTON...CHATSWORTH...CARTERSVILLE...CALHOUN AND ADAIRSVILLE WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Paulding | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Troup | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 9:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 35 min |
| Jul 20, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 23 min |
| Jul 20, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 37 min |
| Jul 20, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Monroe | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 10:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Peach | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 10:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 10:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 37 min |
| Jul 20, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Wilkinson | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.