Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 2:09 PM EST for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 10, 2000, 2:09 PM EST (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2:20 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Greenville, GA | The Greenville sheriff's office reported golf ball size hail. |
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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 509 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 101910
SVRATL
GAC199-101945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
209 PM EST FRI MAR 10 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 245 PM EST
* AT 205 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF GREENVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
SOUTH OF HOGANSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WOODBURY
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 3296 8484 3292 8455 3307 8453 3317 8452
3321 8486The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 34 min |
| Mar 10, 1:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 1:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 2:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson, Madison | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 2:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 6:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.