Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 5:32 PM EDT for Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 13 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, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2005, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rockdale County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KFFC 102132
TORFFC
GAC247-102145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0027.050710T2132Z-050710T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
532 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT
* AT 527 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF
CONYERS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MILSTEAD.
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 3357 8410 3358 8415 3364 8416 3363 8411
3373 8404 3366 8394 3357 8399 3354 8404
$$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, 3:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Monroe | 31 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, 5:41 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.