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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 1:58 AM EST for Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 2002, 1:58 AM EST (06:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2002, 2:45 AM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Paulding 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 11:05 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
825 WFUS52 KFFC 110658 TORATL GAC223-110730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 157 AM EST MON NOV 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 230 AM EST * AT 153 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF BRASWELL...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BRASWELL AND HUNTSVILLE. 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 TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. 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 3407 8493 3395 8499 3400 8473 3409 8474
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 10:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 11:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 11:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 40 min |
| Nov 11, 12:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 43 min |
| Nov 11, 12:35 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 85 min |
| Nov 11, 12:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 44 min |
| Nov 11, 12:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 34 min |
| Nov 11, 1:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 37 min |
| Nov 11, 1:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 48 min |
| Nov 11, 1:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 1:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 1:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 40 min |
| Nov 11, 2:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 2:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 48 min |
| Nov 11, 2:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Paulding | 60 min |
| Nov 11, 2:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 52 min |
| Nov 11, 2:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 53 min |
| Nov 11, 2:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 2:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 96 min |
| Nov 11, 3:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 24 min |
| Nov 11, 3:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 23 min |
| Nov 11, 3:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 43 min |
| Nov 11, 3:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 32 min |
| Nov 11, 4:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 4:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 4:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 38 min |
| Nov 11, 4:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 63 min |
| Nov 11, 4:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 34 min |
| Nov 11, 4:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Newton | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 4:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 5:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 59 min |
| Nov 11, 5:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 5:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton | 3 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 44 min |
| Nov 11, 5:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 27 min |
| Nov 11, 5:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 7:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Nov 11, 7:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 26 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.