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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 374, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 9, 2000Chattahoochee County, Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 11:04 AM EST for Chattahoochee County, Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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, 11:04 AM EST (16:04 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 11:45 AM EST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Stewart 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, 11:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 091604
SVRATL
GAC053-259-091645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1104 AM EST THU NOV 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHWESTERN STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1145 AM EST

* AT 1059 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CUSSETA...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL
NORTHWESTERN STEWART COUNTY AND RURAL CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH 7IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

LAT...LON 3218 8508 3205 8492 3227 8464 3251 8470

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, 8:14 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, 11:28 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee	32 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.