Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 5:08 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2000, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Meriwether County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 032110 SVRATL GAC199-032200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 508 PM EDT WED MAY 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF LONE OAK...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF HOGANSVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DEVELOP AREA OF STORMS ARE PRIMROSE... LUTHERSVILLE AND ST. MARKS. LARGE HAIL 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 32 min |
| May 3, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 23 min |
| May 3, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 24 min |
| May 3, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 35 min |
| May 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 45 min |
| May 3, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 47 min |
| May 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Spalding | 31 min |
| May 3, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 53 min |
| May 3, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 50 min |
| May 3, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 51 min |
| May 3, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 45 min |
| May 3, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 29 min |
| May 3, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 29 min |
| May 3, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 32 min |
| May 3, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 36 min |
| May 3, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 30 min |
| May 3, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 41 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.