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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 24, 2004Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 10:15 AM EST for Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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, 10:15 AM EST (15:15 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 10:45 AM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Talbot County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:19 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 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 241515
TORFFC
GAC263-241545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1015 AM EST WED NOV 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 AM EST

* AT 1010 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF TALBOTTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF MANCHESTER...
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

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

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.

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 3279 8473 3264 8461 3274 8436 3285 8448

$$

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, 9:14 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll	31 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, 10:20 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.