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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 3, 2001Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2001, 11:22 PM EST for Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2001, 11:22 PM EST (04:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2001, 11:45 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 3, 9:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 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.

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 040423
SVRATL
GAC209-309-040445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1122 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1145 PM EST

* AT 1119 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH          
  LOCATED FROM ALAMO TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF ALAMO...MOVING EAST AT     
  50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...UVALDA...  
  MOUNT VERNON...HIGGSTON...GLENWOOD...ALAMO AND AILEY.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCK
DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. TAKE COVER NOW.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.

LAT...LON 3220 8283 3193 8268 3196 8249 3233 8246

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 10:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	19 min
Mar 3, 10:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski, Wilcox	26 min
Mar 3, 10:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge, Pulaski	37 min
Mar 3, 11:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Treutlen	29 min
Mar 4, 12:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	29 min
Mar 4, 12:11 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	19 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.