Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2000, 4:18 PM EDT for Lee County, Terrell County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 12, 2000, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Lee County, GA, Terrell County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 4:32 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg, GA | Few trees down on State Road 32. Reported by the Lee 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 122019 SVRTLH GAC177-273-122045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 418 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LEE COUNTY IN GEORGIA TERRELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 418 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BRIDGES CROSSROAD...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF DAWSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 445 PM EDT... BRONWOOD...DAWSON NEYAMI...BYNE CROSSROADS LEESBURG...JORDAN PLACE MOSSY DELL...STARKSVILLE INTENSE LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. LAT...LON 3186 8448 3169 8449 3167 8404 3187 8400 TREXLER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell | 49 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.