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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 7:08 PM EST for Dooly 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
- Dec 16, 2000, 7:08 PM EST (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dooly County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 7:20 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Vienna, GA | The Dooly county 911 center reported that a roof and carport were blown off a home. Trees and power lines were also blown down in the same area. |
| Dec 16, 7:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 75 E | Drayton, GA | An amateur radio operator estimated wind gusts to 75 mph. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 170008 TORATL GAC093-170045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 708 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 745 PM EST * AT 708 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VIENNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...VIENNA. VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY MAKE THIS TORNADO INVISIBLE - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 7:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 28 min |
| Dec 16, 7:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Dec 16, 7:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 36 min |
| Dec 16, 7:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 34 min |
| Dec 16, 8:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 34 min |
| Dec 16, 8:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Dec 16, 8:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 24 min |
| Dec 16, 9:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 26 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.