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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 379, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 16, 2000Johnson County, Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 9:04 PM EST for Johnson County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 9:04 PM EST (02:04 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 9:30 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Johnson County, GA, Laurens 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
Dec 16, 5:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 170205
SVRATL
GAC167-175-170230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
904 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 PM EST

* AT 903 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUBLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DUBLIN
  AND WRIGHTSVILLE.

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 3247 8311 3224 8304 3259 8263 3275 8282

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, 7:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Whitfield	34 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

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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.