Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 3:05 PM EDT for Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2000, 3:05 PM EDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Franklin, GA | The Heard county civil defense director 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 091907 SVRATL GAC149-091945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 305 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 259 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF FRANKLIN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF CARROLLTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ROOSTERVILLE... CENTRALHATCHEE...SIMPSON...AND MAHAILEY CROSSROADS. 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. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. LAT...LON 3314 D8524 3323 8494 3342 8503 3343 8529
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Peach | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.