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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 377, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 7:56 PM EST for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Dec 16, 2000, 7:56 PM EST (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 102 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -241 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 170058 SVRATL GAC213-313-170130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 756 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA EASTERN WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 830 PM EST * AT 754 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CHATSWORTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CHATSWORTH...ETON...AND SPRING PLACE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3473 8496 3460 8480 3480 8464 3501 8466
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 7:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly | 37 min |
| Dec 16, 7:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 28 min |
| Dec 16, 7:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Dec 16, 7:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 36 min |
| Dec 16, 8:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 34 min |
| Dec 16, 8:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Dec 16, 8:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 24 min |
| Dec 16, 9:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 26 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.