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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 28, 2001Cherokee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2001, 8:31 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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: May 28, 2001, 8:31 PM EDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cherokee County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 28, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 764 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 290031
TORATL
GAC057-290100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
831 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 820 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES WEST OF WALESKA...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A
  TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WALESKA AND
CANTON.

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 3434 8463 3423 8466 3423 8445 3437 8447

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	34 min
May 28, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	23 min
May 28, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	30 min
May 28, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	23 min
May 28, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Hall	33 min
May 28, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	30 min
May 28, 10:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry	23 min
May 28, 10:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	32 min
May 29, 7:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs	33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.