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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 16, 2000Dodge County, Wilcox County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 8:28 PM EST for Dodge County, Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 16, 2000, 8:28 PM EST (01:28 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 9:15 PM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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 170129
TORATL

GAC091-315-170215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN WILCOX COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 915 PM EST

* AT 828 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 20 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF EASTMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ABBYVILLE...
  CHAUNCEY AND EASTMAN.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS!

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
|UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL 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, 7:32 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, 8:36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.