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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2000, 8:10 PM EST for Carroll County, Haralson 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2000, 8:10 PM EST (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2000, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Carroll County, GA, Haralson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 632 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 200112
SVRATL
GAC045-143-200200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
810 PM EST SUN MAR 19 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 900 PM EST
* AT 804 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES
NORTHWEST OF TALLAPOOSA TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TALLAPOOSA TO 10
MILES SOUTH OF BOWDON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WHITESBURG...TEMPLE...
CARROLLTON...BUCHANAN AND BREMEN
WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE 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 3390 8554 3363 8542 3344 8529 3348 8491
3372 8499 3388 8506The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Heard, Troup | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 8:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 8:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 8:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.