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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 317, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 4, 2000Chattahoochee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 7:53 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2000, 8:20 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Chattahoochee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 042354
SVRATL
GAC053-050020-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
753 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 820 PM EDT

* AT 749 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT BENNING...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15   
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CUSSETA.

DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

LAT...LON 3242 8478 3235 8497 3224 8489 3223 8466

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, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	38 min

Nearby

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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.