Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 372, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 8:14 AM EST for Cobb County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 8:14 AM EST (13:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 8:45 AM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cobb County, GA, Paulding County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 8:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas, GA | The Paulding county 911 center reported that large tree limbs were blown off trees near Winndale Road and Georgia Highway 61. |
| Nov 9, 8:17 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Marietta, GA | The Cobb county 911 center reported trees down on Powder Springs Road near Macland Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 4:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
751 WUUS52 KFFC 091314 SVRATL GAC067-223-091345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 814 AM EST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA EASTERN PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 845 AM EST * AT 808 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DALLAS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SMYRNA...POWDER SPRINGS... MARIETTA...KENNESAW...HIRAM...FAIR OAKS AND ACWORTH. 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 3408 8488 3380 8483 3387 8449 3408 8451
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 3:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 35 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.