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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 8:53 PM EDT for Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports 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 10, 2000, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 10, 8:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Winston, GA | Several reports of dime size hail were received from the public from Winston north and west toward the Carroll county border near Villa Rica. |
| Aug 10, 9:08 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Villa Rica, GA | An amateur radio operator reported quarter 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 110053
SVRATL
GAC045-097-110130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
853 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 930 PM EDT
* AT 849 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF VILLA RICA...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DOUGLASVILLE.
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM
PASSES.
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 3378 8495 3376 8498 3357 8482 3369 8465
3379 8475 3378 8491
[The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 18 min |
| Aug 10, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 30 min |
| Aug 10, 11:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 28 min |
| Aug 10, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 19 min |
| Aug 10, 11:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall | 49 min |
| Aug 11, 12:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton | 42 min |
| Aug 11, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 30 min |
| Aug 11, 1:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 28 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.