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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 292, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 28, 2000Twiggs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 1:25 PM EDT for Twiggs 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: Jul 28, 2000, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Twiggs County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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.

806 
WUUS52 KFFC 281727
SVRATL
GAC289-281800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
125 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 121 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF JEFFERSONVILLE...OR ABOUT
  12 MILES EAST OF MACON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FITZPATRICK AND
  MYRICKS MILL.

WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 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.

LAT...LON 3271 8330 3288 8342 3284 8350 3280 8348
          3268 8360 3260 8341

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb	26 min
Jul 28, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson	34 min
Jul 28, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	31 min
Jul 28, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	52 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.