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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 371, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 9, 2000Chattooga County, Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 3:40 AM EST for Chattooga County, Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: Nov 9, 2000, 3:40 AM EST (08:40 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 4:15 AM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chattooga County, GA, Floyd County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 9, 12:30 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 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 090840
SVRATL
GAC055-115-090915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
340 AM EST THU NOV 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  NORTHWEST FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 AM EST

* AT 338 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUMMERVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TRION
  LYERLY...SUMMERVILLE...AND THE NORTHERN CITY LIMITS OF ROME.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

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 3418 8584 3404 8570 3440 8505 3460 8529

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 8:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	31 min
Nov 9, 8:23 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton	37 min
Nov 9, 8:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton	27 min
Nov 9, 11:04 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	41 min
Nov 9, 11:28 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee	32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.