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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 23, 2004Troup County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 3:42 PM EST for Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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: Nov 23, 2004, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 2004, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Troup County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 232042
TORFFC
GAC285-232115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
342 PM EST TUE NOV 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EST

* AT 339 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LA
  GRANGE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  HOGANSVILLE.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO A
BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE FIRST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF DRIVING...DO NO SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

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 3309 8517 3292 8512 3298 8483 3318 8484

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 23, 3:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	25 min
Nov 23, 3:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding, Polk	47 min
Nov 23, 3:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Muscogee	34 min
Nov 23, 4:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	49 min
Nov 23, 4:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	32 min
Nov 23, 5:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper	32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.