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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 11, 2000, 1:42 PM EST for Houston County, Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 11, 2000, 1:42 PM EST (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 2:15 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Houston County, GA, Twiggs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 11:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 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 111844 TORATL GAC153-289-111915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 142 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 215 PM EST * AT 129 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSONVILLE... OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PERRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, 12:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 23 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.