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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 11, 2000, 12:07 AM EST for Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 11, 2000, 12:07 AM EST (05:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 12:30 AM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 12:25 AM EST | Hail 1.75 | Ludville, GA | The public reported golf ball size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 110507 TORATL GAC227-110530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1207 AM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1230 AM EST * AT 1205 AM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JASPER...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. 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 3454 8460 3441 8460 3439 8439 3455 8435
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 11:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Polk | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 11:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 11:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 12:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 25 min |
| Mar 11, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 46 min |
| Mar 11, 9:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 9:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 31 min |
| Mar 11, 10:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot | 31 min |
| Mar 11, 10:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor, Upson | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 11:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 34 min |
| Mar 11, 11:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 29 min |
| Mar 11, 11:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Webster | 24 min |
| Mar 11, 11:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 35 min |
| Mar 11, 12:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 12:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 38 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 40 min |
| Mar 11, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 40 min |
| Mar 11, 1:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 1:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 33 min |
| Mar 11, 2:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Mar 11, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.