Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 19, 2001, 12:21 PM EST for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 12:21 PM EST (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Taylor County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Butler, GA | A storm survey conducted by National Weather Service personnel from the Peachtree City, Georgia office revealed that a weak F0 tornado touched down approximately 4 miles southeast of Butler. The tornado likely existed as a funnel cloud for a 10 minute period |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 191722 TORATL GAC269-191745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1221 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 100 PM EST * AT 1219 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUTLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...REYNOLDS AND BUTLER. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS! IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE 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 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3241 8439 3237 8430 3255 8403 3267 8414
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 39 min |
| Jan 19, 11:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 32 min |
| Jan 19, 12:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 51 min |
| Jan 19, 12:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 12:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 12:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 12:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 23 min |
| Jan 19, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 36 min |
| Jan 19, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 29 min |
| Jan 19, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson, Washington | 35 min |
| Jan 19, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 24 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.