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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 8:23 AM EST for Cherokee County, Cobb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 8:23 AM EST (13:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 8:40 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Holly Spgs, GA | The Cherokee County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported that trees and power lines were blown down near Georgia Highway 5 and Bells Ferry Road in Canton. In addition, the public reported a large pine tree blown down in Holly Springs. |
| Nov 9, 8:45 AM EST | Hail 0.75 | Payne, GA | The public reported dime size hail near the intersection of the Cherokee, Bartow, and Cobb county borders. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 4:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 091323 TORATL GAC057-067-121-091400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 823 AM EST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 900 AM EST * AT 820 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENNESAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE WOODSTOCK... ROSWELL...MARIETTA...HOLLY SPRINGS...FAIR OAKS AND ACWORTH. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 7 7 0 4 8 6 1 1 3 3 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4. LAT...LON 3404 8473 33g85 8467 3402 8432 3421 8449
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 3:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 35 min |
| Nov 9, 8:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 31 min |
| Nov 9, 8:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton | 27 min |
| Nov 9, 11:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 41 min |
| Nov 9, 11:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.