Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 11:13 PM EST for Forsyth County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 11:13 PM EST (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forsyth County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 528 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 140416 TORATL GAC117-140445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1113 PM EST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1145 PM EST * AT 1112 PM EST... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES SOUTH OF CUMMING... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... CUMMING... OSCARVILLE... SEEK SHELTER IN THE BASEMENT UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. OR...GO TO AN INTERIOR CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS T^O COVER YOUR BODY. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-1133 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 9:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 10:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 12:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Morgan, Oconee, Walton | 23 min |
| Feb 14, 1:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Spalding | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 1:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 32 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 33 min |
| Feb 14, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.