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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 16, 2001Cobb County, Douglas County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 6:08 PM EST for Cobb County, Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Feb 16, 2001, 6:08 PM EST (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2001, 6:45 PM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cobb County, GA, Douglas County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 16, 6:10 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Douglasville, GA	A storm spotter, who estimated winds at 70 mph, reported damage to a gas station in Douglasville. The public reported that one tree was down and pieces of a tin roof were blown off a barn about halfway between Douglasville and Lithia Springs. Other reports o

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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 49 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 162309
TORATL
GAC067-097-162345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 606 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  OVER DOUGLASVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS 
  STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SMYRNA...POWDER
  SPRINGS...MABLETON...LITHIA SPRINGS...DOUGLASVILLE AND AUSTELL.

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...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 3373 8483 3368 8482 3371 8463 3391 8444
          3388 8471 3378 8471 3377 8483

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, 5:47 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Paulding, Polk	28 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, 6:22 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.