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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 10, 2000Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 10, 2000, 1:50 AM EST for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 10, 2000, 1:50 AM EST (06:50 UTC)
Expired
Jan 10, 2000, 2:40 AM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Fulton County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 10, 1:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-01-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 65 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 10, 1:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll50 min
Jan 10, 1:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard48 min
Jan 10, 1:41 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas34 min
Jan 10, 1:55 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta65 min
Jan 10, 2:12 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb33 min
Jan 10, 2:28 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.