Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 12:13 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 17 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
- Sep 16, 2004, 12:13 PM EDT (16:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Stewart 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 10:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 161613 TORATL GAC053-215-259-161630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1213 PM EDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA MUSCOGEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1230 PM EDT * AT 1210 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUVALE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF FORT BENNING... MOVING NORTH AT 60 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO COLUMBUS. 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 900 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN 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 3207 8501 3208 8479 3250 8481 3249 8504 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 35 min |
| 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, 12:16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.