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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 11, 2000Sumter County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 11:31 AM EST for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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: Mar 11, 2000, 11:31 AM EST (16:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2000, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sumter 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
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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 111633
SVRATL
GAC261-111700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1131 AM EST SAT MAR 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL NOON EST

* AT 1131 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PLAINS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  AMERICUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE AMERICUS

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM
PASSES.

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 3210 8446 3194 8440 3193 8396 3219 8404

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, 11:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford	34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.