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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 338, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 11:22 PM EDT for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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 10, 2000, 11:22 PM EDT (03:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 11:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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, 11:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Griffin, GA | The public 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 26 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 110323 SVRATL GAC255-110350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1122 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SPALDING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1150 PM EDT * AT 1120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF EXPERIMENT...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GRIFFIN. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES. INTENSE LIGHTNIBNG IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. LAT...LON 3330 8414 3332 8432 3322 8443 3321 8419
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 37 min |
| 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, 11:41 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.