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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 10, 2000Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 3:15 PM EST for Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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: Mar 10, 2000, 3:15 PM EST (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Upson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 509 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 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 102015
SVRATL
GAC293-102045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
315 PM EST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 309 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF THOMASTON...MOVING EAST AT
  20 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 6:56 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	34 min
Mar 10, 1:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard, Troup	29 min
Mar 10, 1:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	38 min
Mar 10, 2:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	36 min
Mar 10, 2:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson, Madison	29 min
Mar 10, 2:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	37 min
Mar 10, 6:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.