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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 3, 2000Meriwether County, Pike County, Spalding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2000, 3:36 AM EDT for Meriwether County, Pike County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 3, 2000, 3:36 AM EDT (07:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 2000, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Spalding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 3, 3:45 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EGGriffin, GASpalding county 911 center reported trees down in Griffin.
Apr 3, 3:45 AM EDTHail 0.75Griffin, GASpalding county 911 center reported dime size hail in Griffin.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 3, 12:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 217 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 430 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 851 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
430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
851 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
851 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.3
Supercell composite
21.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 030736
SVRATL
GAC113-171-199-231-255-030800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
336 AM EDT MON APR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHWESTERN LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SPALDING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 AM EDT

* AT 336 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF LUTHERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES EAST OF HOGANSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ZEBULON...WOODBURY...
  TYRONE...PEACHTREE CITY...GRIFFIN...GREENVILLE...FAYETTEVILLE...
  EXPERIMENT AND EAST GRIFFIN

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 11:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Polk27 min
Apr 3, 1:47 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Polk28 min
Apr 3, 2:19 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCBartow, Floyd, Paulding, Polk56 min
Apr 3, 2:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, DeKalb, Fulton27 min
Apr 3, 2:57 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCCherokee, Forsyth, Fulton33 min
Apr 3, 3:22 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCDawson, Forsyth, Hall, Lumpkin38 min
Apr 3, 3:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette24 min
Apr 3, 3:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar24 min
Apr 3, 3:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCUpson25 min
Apr 3, 3:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Hall, Jackson, White35 min
Apr 3, 4:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding52 min
Apr 3, 4:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones52 min
Apr 3, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson, Polk29 min
Apr 3, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Paulding36 min
Apr 3, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Cherokee30 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.