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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 319, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 9, 2000Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 2:06 PM EDT for Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2000, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Monroe County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 9, 2:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Forsyth, GA	The Monroe county 911 center reported dime size hail.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 1309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 091807
SVRATL
GAC207-091830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
206 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 201 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORSYTH...MOVING SOUTH AT
  5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SMARR AND
  BOLINGBROKE.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STObRM
PASSES.

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

LAT...LON 3296 8372 3310 8378 3304 8398 3284 8391
          3289 8380

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	37 min
Aug 9, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	40 min
Aug 9, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	37 min
Aug 9, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	44 min
Aug 9, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	37 min
Aug 9, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	36 min
Aug 9, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.