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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 30, 2000Baldwin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2000, 6:34 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports 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 30, 2000, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baldwin County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 30, 6:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Milledgeville, GA	The Baldwin county 911 center reported trees and power lines down.
Jul 30, 6:50 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Milledgeville, GA	The Baldwin county 911 center received reports of dime 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 309 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: 2744 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 302235
SVRATL
GAC009-302315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
634 PM EDT SUN JUL 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 626 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILLEDGEVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

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

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

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 3317 8342 3304 8327 3311 8315 3317 8323

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	44 min
Jul 30, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	35 min
Jul 30, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	42 min
Jul 30, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Henry	44 min
Jul 30, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton, Gwinnett	36 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.