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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 16, 2000Bleckley County, Pulaski County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 7:32 PM EST for Bleckley County, Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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, 7:32 PM EST (00:32 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Pulaski County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 16, 7:55 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochran, GA	The Bleckley county 911 center reported that a couple of cell phone towers were blown down.

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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 170032
TORATL

GAC023-235-170100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
732 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 800 PM EST

* AT 725 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF HAWKINSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HAWKINSVILLE   
  AND COCHRAN.

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.

GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW!

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NAT2IONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 7:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dooly	37 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

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.