Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2000, 2:58 PM EDT for Baker County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 18, 2000, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Baker County, GA, Mitchell County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Hopeful, GA | Dime size hail. Reported by the Mitchell County Sheriff. |
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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
802 WUUS52 KTAE 181859 SVRTLH GAC007-205-181930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 258 PM EDT SUN JUN 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND EASTERN BAKER COUNTY IN GEORGIA WESTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 258 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES SOUTH OF HOPEFUL... OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMILLA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRANCHVILLE...HOPEFUL BY 305 PM EDT HOGGARD MILL BY 310 PM EDT HAWKINSTOWN BY 320 PM EDT NEWTON...ELMODEL WMA BY 330 PM EDT THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3106 8451 3106 8430 3141 8429 3140 8451 VOLKMER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.