Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2000, 8:05 PM EDT for Irwin County, Turner County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2000, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Irwin County, GA, Turner County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca, GA | Some trees and power lines down. Reported by the Turner County EMA. |
| Aug 18, 8:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Rebecca, GA | Quarter size hail. Reported by the Turner County EMA. |
| Aug 18, 8:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Irwinville, GA | Numerous trees down. Reported by the Irwin County EMA. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2932 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 15.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 190006 SVRTLH GAC155-287-190045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 805 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... IRWIN COUNTY IN GEORGIA TURNER COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 803 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF AMBOY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF ASHBURN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... REBECCA BY 810 PM EDT BETHEL...ARP BY 825 PM EDT IRWINVILLE...WATERLOO BY 840 PM EDT THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. .END 5 MOLLERE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Irwin | 50 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.