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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2000, 3:49 PM EDT for Bartow County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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 24, 2000, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bartow County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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 24, 4:00 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Calhoun, GA | Several reports of dime to quarter size hail were received from the public. |
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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 241950 SVRATL GAC015-129-242015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 349 PM EDT THU AUG 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 344 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF ADAIRSVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALHOUN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FAIRMOUNT. 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 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 ATC EXTENSION 2 0 4. LAT...LON 3457 8491 3434 8499 3424 8475 3444 8466
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.