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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 11:26 AM EST for Crawford County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 11, 2000, 11:26 AM EST (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Crawford County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 11:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville, GA | Crawford county 911 reported 2 trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds. A newspaper article reported a tree top fell onto a cabin on Hopewell Road West, but caused little damage.The owner reported hearing whistling wind and hail, and suspected a tornado. It |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 11:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
630 WUUS52 KFFC 111626 SVRATL GAC079-111700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1126 AM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL NOON EST * AT 1115 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF ROBERTA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF FORT VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 7 7 0 4 8 6 1 1 3 3 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4. LAT...LON 3271 8415 3252 8402 3260 8385 3276 8384
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 11:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Polk | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 11:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 11:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 12:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 23 min |
| Mar 11, 12:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 25 min |
| Mar 11, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 46 min |
| Mar 11, 9:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 9:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 31 min |
| Mar 11, 10:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot | 31 min |
| Mar 11, 10:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor, Upson | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 11:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 29 min |
| Mar 11, 11:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Webster | 24 min |
| Mar 11, 11:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 35 min |
| Mar 11, 12:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 12:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 38 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 40 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 40 min |
| Mar 11, 1:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 1:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 33 min |
| Mar 11, 2:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Mar 11, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.