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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 10, 2005Butts County, Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 3:03 PM EDT for Butts County, Monroe 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: Jul 10, 2005, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2005, 3:34 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Butts County, GA, Monroe County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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 10, 2:20 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 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 101904
TORFFC
GAC035-207-101930-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0026.050710T1903Z-050710T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
303 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUTTS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 300 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO SOUTHEAST OF 
  FLOVILLA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  BLOUNT...JACKSON AND JENKINSBURG.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT MONDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT MONDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL 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 3326 8409 3330 8408 3338 8397 3343 8394
      3330 8383 3322 8384 3319 8381 3315 8381
      3311 8380 3307 8386

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 101922
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
322 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005

GAC035-207-101930-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-050710T1930Z/
MONROE-BUTTS-
322 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR BUTTS AND NORTH
CENTRAL MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 321 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR JENKINSBURG...OR
ABOUT NEAR JACKSON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT MONDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT MONDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL 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 3326 8409 3330 8408 3338 8397 3343 8394
      3330 8383 3322 8384 3319 8381 3315 8381
      3311 8380 3307 8386

$$

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 101934
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
332 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005

GAC035-207-101942-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-050710T1930Z/
MONROE-BUTTS-
332 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BUTTS AND NORTH CENTRAL MONROE COUNTIES
EXPIRES AT 330 PM EDT...

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BUTTS AND MONROE COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE...HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL CONTINUE FOR 
BUTTS.  STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST WITH WINDS AT 60 
MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT MONDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT MONDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL 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 3326 8409 3330 8408 3338 8397 3343 8394
      3330 8383 3322 8384 3319 8381 3315 8381
      3311 8380 3307 8386

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 8:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	3 hr
Jul 10, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones, Monroe	29 min
Jul 10, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Spalding	47 min
Jul 10, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Monroe	49 min
Jul 10, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Putnam	39 min
Jul 10, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry	45 min
Jul 10, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Rockdale	13 min
Jul 10, 5:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	DeKalb	29 min
Jul 10, 6:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fulton	27 min
Jul 10, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	25 min
Jul 10, 7:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton	103 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.