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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 1:17 PM EDT for Banks County, Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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
- Aug 4, 2000, 1:17 PM EDT (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2000, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Banks County, GA, Hall County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 821 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 041717 SVRATL GAC011-139-311-041745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 117 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 145 PM EDT. * AT 112 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLEVELAND...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF DAHLONEGA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ALTO. 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 3470 8377 3455 8389 3436 8355 3455 8341
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.