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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 11, 2002Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 12:35 AM EST for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 85 min. 1 report 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, 12:35 AM EST (05:35 UTC)
Expired: Nov 11, 2002, 2:00 AM EST
In force: 85 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Floyd County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 11, 1:35 AM EST	Tornado F2	Halls, GA	A National Weather Service disaster survey team and the Bartow county Emergency Management Director confirmed a 12 mile long west-east path of damage beginning on Barnsley Garden Road near Barnsley Gardens in northwest Bartow county continuing east to just sou

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

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 110535 CCA
TORATL
GAC115-110615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1231 AM EST MON NOV 11 2002...CORRECTED FOR EST

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 115 AM EST

* AT 1226 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 20 MILES WEST OF ROME.  THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS
  MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LINDALE AND
ROME.

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

TAKE COVER NOW THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN. 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 3427 8545 3412 8541 3420 8506 3445 8514

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, 12:46 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, 4:12 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

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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.