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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 16, 2001Paulding County, Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 5:47 PM EST for Paulding County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports 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: Feb 16, 2001, 5:47 PM EST (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2001, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 16, 6:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 69 E	Dallas, GA	The public reported several large pine trees snapped off in Dallas and trees were down on Georgia Highway 92 at Hiram and were blocking traffic in the area. An amateur radio operator estimated winds of 80 mph three miles west of Dallas with debris noted in th
Feb 16, 6:01 PM EST	Hail 1.25	Dallas, GA	A National Weather Service cooperative observer reported quarter to half-dollar size hail.

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
Feb 16, 5:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 162247
TORATL
GAC223-233-162315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
547 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EST

* AT 543 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER ROCKMART...MOVING
  EAST AT 45 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
  ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ROCKMART AND   
  ARAGON.

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!

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARuGE 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 3402 8516 3390 8513 3392 8473 3408 8475
          3410 8489

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 4:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	23 min
Feb 16, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk	46 min
Feb 16, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	46 min
Feb 16, 5:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	23 min
Feb 16, 6:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb	29 min
Feb 16, 6:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Heard	29 min
Feb 16, 6:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas	37 min
Feb 16, 6:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton	38 min
Feb 16, 6:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	38 min
Feb 16, 6:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett	33 min
Feb 16, 6:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale	41 min
Feb 16, 6:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	41 min
Feb 16, 6:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	37 min
Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall, Jackson	44 min
Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Walton	44 min
Feb 16, 6:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow	44 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.