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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 30, 2000Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2000, 1:41 AM EST for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 30, 2000, 1:41 AM EST (06:41 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2000, 2:15 AM EST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stewart County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 2000-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 230 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
374 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 300643
SVRATL
GAC259-300715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
141 AM EST THU MAR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 215 AM EST

* AT 140 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF OMAHA...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH
  OF EUFAULA...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3222 8509 3207 8510 3208 8465 3223 8466

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 3:45 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee30 min
Mar 30, 4:59 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Sumter31 min
Mar 30, 7:28 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Meriwether32 min
Mar 30, 10:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox59 min
Mar 30, 10:31 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair, Wilcox29 min
Mar 30, 10:54 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair, Wheeler36 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.