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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 15, 2001Talbot County, Taylor County, Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2001, 4:37 AM EST for Talbot County, Taylor County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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: Mar 15, 2001, 4:37 AM EST (09:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2001, 5:00 AM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Upson 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
Mar 15, 2:30 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 2123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 150938
TORATL
GAC263-269-293-151000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
437 AM EST THU MAR 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  EXTREME NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 AM EST

* AT 432 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER EAST CENTRAL TALBOT
  COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE
  A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL EXTREME
EAST CENTRAL TALBOT COUNTY AND RURAL EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL TAYLOR
COUNTY.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE.

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 3278 8437 3265 8438 3269 8421 3286 8426

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 3:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	35 min
Mar 15, 3:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Meriwether, Troup	26 min
Mar 15, 4:18 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson	27 min
Mar 15, 4:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Monroe	33 min
Mar 15, 4:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar	33 min
Mar 15, 5:01 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Monroe	14 min
Mar 15, 5:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones	29 min
Mar 15, 5:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	29 min
Mar 15, 6:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	30 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.