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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 4, 2001Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2001, 12:11 AM EST for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 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 4, 2001, 12:11 AM EST (05:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2001, 12:30 AM EST
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Toombs 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.

623 
WUUS52 KFFC 040512
SVRATL
GAC279-040530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1211 AM EST SUN MAR 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TOOMBS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1230 AM EST

* AT 1209 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH   
  LOCATED FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF LYONS TO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANTA   
  CLAUS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...SANTA CLAUS
  AND LYONS.

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

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 3229 8238 3198 8246 3193 8227 3225 8223

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, 11:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	23 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

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.