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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 3, 20004 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 3:22 AM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2000, 3:22 AM EDT (07:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2000, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dawson County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Hall County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 3, 12:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 292 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: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 851 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 851 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 21.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 030722
TORATL
GAC085-117-139-187-030800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
322 AM EDT MON APR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN LUMPKIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 AM EDT

* AT 322 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF GAINESVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE WESTSIDE AND
  DAHLONEGA

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW!

LAT...LON 3443 8420 3422 8406 3432 8366 3451 8379
          3456 8404

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 11:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Polk	27 min
Apr 3, 1:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	28 min
Apr 3, 2:19 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd, Paulding, Polk	56 min
Apr 3, 2:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton	27 min
Apr 3, 2:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton	33 min
Apr 3, 3:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Spalding	24 min
Apr 3, 3:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	24 min
Apr 3, 3:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar	24 min
Apr 3, 3:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	25 min
Apr 3, 3:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall, Jackson, White	35 min
Apr 3, 4:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding	52 min
Apr 3, 4:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	52 min
Apr 3, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	29 min
Apr 3, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	36 min
Apr 3, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.