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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 19, 2001Crawford County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 19, 2001, 12:40 PM EST for Crawford County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: Jan 19, 2001, 12:40 PM EST (17:40 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 2001, 1:15 PM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Crawford 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
Jan 19, 11:15 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 191743
TORATL

GAC079-191815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1240 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 115 PM EST

* AT 1234 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER
  SOUTH CENTRAL TAYLOR COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL CRAWFORD 
  COUNTY. 
  
CONFIRMED REPORT FROM SPOTTER OF TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
BUTLER AT 1239 PM EST. 

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...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 3263 8409 3254 8403 3268 8377 3284 8392

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, 12:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Taylor	39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.