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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 24, 2001Cherokee County, Dawson County, Forsyth County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2001, 6:31 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Dawson County, Forsyth County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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: May 24, 2001, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cherokee County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Forsyth County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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
May 24, 7:10 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Landrum, GA	The Dawson County Emergency Management Director witnessed golf ball size hail for several minutes in a rural area near the Forsyth county line, about 3 miles southeast of Lumpkin in extreme southeast Forsyth county.

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
May 24, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 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 
WFUS52 KFFC 242231
TORATL
GAC057-085-117-242315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
631 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 623 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BALL GROUND.  THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...NELSON...
  DAWSONVILLE AND BALL GROUND.

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

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...VIOLENT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND
POSSIBLY A TORNADO. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 3447 8414 3445 8426 3439 8426 3438 8445
          3425 8444 3429 8393 3434 8398 3442 8398

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson	35 min
May 24, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd	37 min
May 24, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	52 min
May 24, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	44 min
May 24, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	23 min
May 24, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon	36 min
May 24, 6:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Hall	36 min
May 24, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett	32 min
May 24, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	32 min
May 24, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson	26 min
May 24, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	38 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.