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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 603

July 20, 20004 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 20, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties

Cleburne County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Clay County, NC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield43 min
Jul 20, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Paulding49 min
Jul 20, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Douglas, Fulton47 min
Jul 20, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Fayette40 min

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 532 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
532 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.