Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 11:00 PM EST for Chattooga County, Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 10, 2000, 11:00 PM EST (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chattooga County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 11:00 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Cedartown, GA | Several reports from Ham operators indicated dime size hail. |
| Mar 10, 11:35 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Lindale, GA | A Ham operator 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 10, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 110401 SVRATL GAC055-115-233-110445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1100 PM EST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1145 PM EST * AT 1058 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF SUMMERVILLE TO 13 MILES WEST OF CAVE SPRING TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CEDARTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE TRION...SHANNON...ROME... ROCKMART...LINDALE AND ARAGON 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. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 11:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 11:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 12:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 23 min |
| Mar 11, 12:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 25 min |
| Mar 11, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 46 min |
| Mar 11, 9:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 9:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 31 min |
| Mar 11, 10:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot | 31 min |
| Mar 11, 10:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor, Upson | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 11:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 34 min |
| Mar 11, 11:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 29 min |
| Mar 11, 11:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Webster | 24 min |
| Mar 11, 11:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 35 min |
| Mar 11, 12:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 12:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 38 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 40 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 40 min |
| Mar 11, 1:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 1:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 33 min |
| Mar 11, 2:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Mar 11, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether | 34 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.