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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 25, 2003Cobb County, DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2003, 7:10 PM EDT for Cobb County, DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: Apr 25, 2003, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cobb County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Fulton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 25, 6:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 476 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.

776 
WFUS52 KFFC 252310
TORATL
GAC067-089-121-252345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
710 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 705 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER MABLETON...MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
  ANY TIME.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM 
INCLUDE...ATLANTA...AVONDALE ESTATES...BELVEDERE PARK...
CANDLER-MCAFEE...CLARKSTON...DECATUR...DRUID HILLS...FAIR 
OAKS...MABLETON...NORTH ATLANTA...PINE LAKE...
REDAN...SCOTTDALE...SMYRNA...STONE MOUNTAIN...TUCKER AND 
VININGS.

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 3394 8461 3378 8459 3368 8413 3383 8412

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	25 min
Apr 25, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	28 min
Apr 25, 5:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	37 min
Apr 25, 5:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Paulding	31 min
Apr 25, 6:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Paulding, Polk	35 min
Apr 25, 6:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cobb	25 min
Apr 25, 6:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	32 min
Apr 25, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	29 min
Apr 25, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee	30 min
Apr 25, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	24 min
Apr 25, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	30 min
Apr 25, 7:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Stewart	34 min
Apr 25, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	16 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.