Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 8:26 PM EDT for Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2000, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pike County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:35 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Zebulon, GA | Sight survey by NWS employees, together with newspaper and public reports, confirmed an F0 to F1 tornado touched down in northeastern PIke county near the intersection of Gresham Road and Kendrick Road. It crossed the extreme northwest corner of Lamar county a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
537 WFUS52 KFFC 040026 TORATL GAC231-040100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 826 PM EDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 826 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ZEBULON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3306 8450 3299 8451 3312 8426 3319 8437
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Spalding | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 9:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 9:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Monroe | 17 min |
| Apr 3, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Putnam | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 38 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.