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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 345, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2000, 4:43 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 18, 2000, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Laurens County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 4:43 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dudley, GA | A variety of sources, including the Dublin Courier Herald, local broadcast media, amateur radio operators, and the public reported that an apparent thunderstorm microburst caused extensive wind damage to areas from Dudley to Dublin, especially within the city |
| Aug 18, 5:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Dublin, GA | The Laurens county 911, as well as the public and the Dublin Courier Herald, reported dime to golf ball 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
052 WUUS52 KFFC 182043 SVRATL GAC175-182115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 443 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 441 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUBLIN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DUBLIN. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 7 7 0 4 8 6 1 1 3 3 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4. LAT...LON 3253 8313 3228 8291 3256 8270 3270 8287
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.