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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 4, 2000Banks County, Hall County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 2:17 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 2000, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2000, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Banks County, GA, Hall County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 2000-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 821 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 2000-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 12:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Floyd25 min
Aug 4, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Polk36 min
Aug 4, 1:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Hall28 min
Aug 4, 1:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWhite28 min
Aug 4, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper, Morgan, Putnam24 min
Aug 4, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Monroe30 min
Aug 4, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan, Oconee23 min
Aug 4, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCOglethorpe23 min
Aug 4, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard38 min
Aug 4, 7:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000Every 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.