Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 150
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2000, 12:00 AM EDT for 54 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2000, 12:00 AM EDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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.
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 3:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Lumpkin | 38 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 310 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Haralson, Heard, Polk, Troup | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 56 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Quitman, Talbot | 5 hr |
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.