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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 357, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 24, 2000Bartow County, Floyd County, Gordon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2000, 4:57 PM EDT for Bartow County, Floyd County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 24, 2000, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Adairsville, GA	The public reported golf ball size hail.
Aug 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Adairsville, GA	The public reported three trees down.

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
Aug 24, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 242058
SVRATL
GAC015-115-129-242130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
457 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
  NORTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 454 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHANNON...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF CALHOUN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FAIRMOUNT...CALHOUN AND
  ADAIRSVILLE.

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 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.

LAT...LON 3448 8509 3431 8514 3419 8469 3457 8468

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Gordon	26 min
Aug 24, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall	33 min
Aug 24, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	36 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.