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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 18, 2000Baker County, Mitchell County, Georgia

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 18, 3:10 PM EDTHail 0.75Hopeful, GADime 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 575 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
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

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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
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELowndes25 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.