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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 316, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 6:52 PM EDT for Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 042257 SVRATL GAC149-042330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 652 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 650 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF FRANKLIN ...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * AREAS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE YATES CROSSROADS AND FRANKLIN. 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 3339 8530 3315 8522 3325 8497 3341 8504
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 | Morgan, Oconee | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 23 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.