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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 2000, 1:44 PM EDT for Dawson County, Hall County, Lumpkin County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 3 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2000, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dawson County, GA, Hall County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Murrayville, GA | An NWS Storm Survey team from the Peachtree City WFO confirmed that an F0 to weak F1 briefly tornado touched down in the Leisure Lakes Village mobile home park area of Murrayville in the far north part of the county. At least half a dozen homes were severely d |
| Jul 23, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Murrayville, GA | The public, along with several local newspapers, reported numerous trees and power lines down across much of the northern half of Hall county from Murrayville, to Gainesville, to Lula. Several boats docked at the north end of Lake Lanier were also reported to |
| Jul 23, 2:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Murrayville, GA | The public and the Gainesville Times Newspaper both provided numerous reports of hail ranging in size from dimes to golfballs across the northern part of the county from Murrayville, to Gainesville, to Clermont, to Lula. Golfball size hail was particularly wi |
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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 231744 TORATL GAC085-139-187-231815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 144 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN LUMPKIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 139 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF DAWSONVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAHLONEGA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CLERMONT A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. RADAR SHOWS STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING. 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 3445 8419 3435 8411 3431 8369 3449 8377
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 41 min |
| Jul 23, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 43 min |
| Jul 23, 2:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks | 38 min |
| Jul 23, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Walton | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks | 43 min |
| Jul 23, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 37 min |
| Jul 23, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oconee | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro | 38 min |
| Jul 23, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 40 min |
| Jul 23, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 35 min |
| Jul 23, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 39 min |
| Jul 23, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 25 min |
| Jul 23, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 46 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.