Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 4:12 AM EST for Morgan County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 2002, 4:12 AM EST (09:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2002, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morgan County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM EST | Hail 1.75 | Farrar, GA | The Jasper county Emergency Management Director reported golf ball size hail. |
| Nov 11, 4:45 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Farrar, GA | The Jasper county Emergency Management Director reported that numerous trees and power lines were down at Farrar. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 11:05 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 11, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 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.
- 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.
630 WFUS52 KFFC 110912 TORATL GAC211-111000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 412 AM EST MON NOV 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 500 AM EST * AT 408 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES WEST OF MADISON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BUCKHEAD AND MADISON. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE DAMAGING HAIL AND VIOLENT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW 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 3357 8366 3345 8352 3352 8331 3371 8344
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, 1:58 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding | 47 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, 4:41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.