Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 10:40 AM EDT for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 4 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
- Sep 16, 2004, 10:40 AM EDT (14:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stewart County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 11:05 AM EDT | TORNADO | 5 S Richland, GA | POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
| Sep 16, 11:05 AM EDT | TORNADO | 5 S Richland, GA | POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF RICHLAND. |
| Sep 16, 11:06 AM EDT | TORNADO | 5 S Richland, GA | 2 REPORTED TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS 5S AND 5W OF RICHLAND. |
| Sep 16, 11:06 AM EDT | TORNADO | 5 S Richland, GA | TWO POSSIBLE TORNADOES TOUCHDOWN 5 MILES SOUTH AND 5 WEST OF RICHLAND. DAMAGE AT THIS TIME IS UNKNOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 161440 TORATL GAC259-161515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1040 AM EDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1115 AM EDT * AT 1035 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF RICHLAND...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF CUTHBERT...MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WESTVILLE. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. 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 3192 8478 3194 8465 3222 8466 3223 8484 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 11:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 11:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 23 min |
| Sep 16, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 15 min |
| Sep 16, 11:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 16 min |
| Sep 16, 12:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart | 17 min |
| Sep 16, 12:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 29 min |
| Sep 16, 1:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 12 min |
| Sep 16, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 15 min |
| Sep 16, 1:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 13 min |
| Sep 16, 2:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson | 19 min |
| Sep 16, 2:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Oconee | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 32 min |
| Sep 16, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 2:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Spalding | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 2:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 3:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 3:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pike, Upson | 25 min |
| Sep 16, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Monroe | 36 min |
| Sep 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Upson | 35 min |
| Sep 16, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Spalding | 30 min |
| Sep 16, 4:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 24 min |
| Sep 16, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Spalding | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 35 min |
| Sep 16, 5:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Lamar, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Monroe | 36 min |
| Sep 16, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 6:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 6:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Pickens | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 18 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer and 8 more | 6 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.