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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 358, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2000, 7:09 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2000, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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.
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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 49 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 242310
SVRATL
GAC121-242345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
709 PM EDT THU AUG 24 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
* AT 659 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF ATLANTA...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF VININGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HAPEVILLE.
DIME SIZE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM
PASSES.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WINDS CAN BE VERY DESTRUCTIVE. FOR YOUR
SAFETY...GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT U$SE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.
LAT...LON 3392 8434 3379 8451 3365 8445 3366 8434
3384 8435The 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, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.