Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 706
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 24, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT for 8 counties in Alabama; 50 counties in Georgia; 14 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 72 counties
Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Marshall County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 26 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.