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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 2000, 2:52 PM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 23, 2000, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Banks County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.
342 WFUS52 KFFC 231857 COR TORATL GAC011-139-231930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 252 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO OVER LULA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CORNELIA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ALTO 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 3440 8379 3428 8364 3452 8330 3468 8349
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, 1:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin | 31 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.