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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 9:14 AM EST for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 24, 2004, 9:14 AM EST (14:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 9:45 AM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carroll County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 8:25 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 241414 TORFFC GAC045-241445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 914 AM EST WED NOV 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 945 AM EST * AT 912 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLEM...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARROLLTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WHITESBURG. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST WEDNESDAY FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 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 3349 8531 3338 8523 3351 8481 3370 8491 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 8:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 8:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 49 min |
| Nov 24, 9:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 9:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 52 min |
| Nov 24, 9:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 9:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 50 min |
| Nov 24, 9:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 46 min |
| Nov 24, 9:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 9:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 9:48 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 9:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 9:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 10:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Pickens | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 10:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 10:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 10:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 40 min |
| Nov 24, 10:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Lumpkin and 1 more | 36 min |
| Nov 24, 10:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 10:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 10:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 43 min |
| Nov 24, 10:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Walton and 1 more | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 10:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 47 min |
| Nov 24, 11:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and 1 more | 37 min |
| Nov 24, 11:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Peach | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 11:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 11:55 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 12:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 12:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 26 min |
| Nov 24, 12:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 47 min |
| Nov 24, 12:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 33 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.