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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 14, 2004Cherokee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2004, 5:59 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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: Jul 14, 2004, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherokee County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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
Jul 14, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Jul 14, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 2332 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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.

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 142159
TORATL
GAC057-142245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
559 PM EDT WED JUL 14 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NELSON.  THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BALL GROUND...
BUFFINGTON...CANTON...FREE HOME AND NELSON.

RADAR SHOWS STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING. TAKE COVER
NOW

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 3438 8428 3438 8455 3409 8445 3419 8425

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 11:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	24 min
Jul 14, 12:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Murray, Whitfield	49 min
Jul 14, 12:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	27 min
Jul 14, 12:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Gilmer, Gordon	50 min
Jul 14, 12:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union	46 min
Jul 14, 1:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	27 min
Jul 14, 1:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin, Pickens	46 min
Jul 14, 1:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	45 min
Jul 14, 1:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding, Polk	38 min
Jul 14, 1:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	35 min
Jul 14, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	36 min
Jul 14, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	25 min
Jul 14, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	40 min
Jul 14, 4:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fannin	47 min
Jul 14, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	33 min
Jul 14, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	26 min
Jul 14, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	46 min
Jul 14, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, Union	42 min
Jul 14, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Pickens	51 min
Jul 14, 5:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fannin	3 hr
Jul 14, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	41 min
Jul 14, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	32 min
Jul 14, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	29 min
Jul 14, 5:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Pickens	23 min
Jul 14, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson	49 min
Jul 14, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson	64 min
Jul 14, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	23 min
Jul 14, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	47 min
Jul 14, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Fulton	36 min
Jul 14, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	28 min
Jul 14, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oconee, Walton	51 min
Jul 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	41 min
Jul 14, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	35 min
Jul 14, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	63 min
Jul 14, 7:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fulton	31 min
Jul 14, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	35 min
Jul 14, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene	62 min
Jul 14, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	29 min
Jul 14, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	46 min
Jul 14, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	41 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.