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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 11, 2000, 2:08 PM EST for Twiggs County, Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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, 2:08 PM EST (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Twiggs County, GA, Wilkinson 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 111909 TORATL GAC289-319-111945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 208 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 245 PM EST * AT 204 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSONVILLE... OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF ROBINS AFB...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE TOOMSBORO AND IRWINTON IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AVN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. 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.
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, 1:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 33 min |
| Mar 11, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.