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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 28, 2000Washington County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 3:08 PM EDT for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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: Jul 28, 2000, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Washington County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 28, 3:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Tennille, GA	The Washington county 911 center reported two trees down on Tennille-Oconee Road.

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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.

518 
WUUS52 KFFC 281910
SVRATL
GAC303-282000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TENNILLE...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANDERSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SANDERSVILLE...OCONEE...
  HARRISON...AND IRWINS CROSSROADS.

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 3282 8263 3319 8280 3292 8304 3286 8303
          3284 8298 3276 8297 3281 8281 3280 8273

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	35 min
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

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.