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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 2:37 PM EDT for Morgan County, Oconee County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morgan County, GA, Oconee County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 041838 SVRATL GAC211-219-221-041900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 237 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA OCONEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA OGLETHORPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 234 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATKINSVILLE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GAINES SCHOOL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CRAWFORD. 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. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LAyRGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 7 7 0 4 8 6 1 1 3 3 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.
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 | Banks, Hall | 28 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 | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.