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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 28, 2000Taliaferro County, Wilkes County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 2:44 PM EDT for Taliaferro County, Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2000, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Taliaferro County, GA, Wilkes County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 795 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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.

507 
WUUS52 KFFC 281846
SVRATL
GAC265-317-281915-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TALIAFERRO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WASHINGTON...MOVING   
  SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs35 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb26 min
Jul 28, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson34 min
Jul 28, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington52 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.