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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 10, 2005Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 6:03 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2005, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fulton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 102204
TORFFC
GAC121-102230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0029.050710T2203Z-050710T2230Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 559 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO SOUTHEAST OF
  TURNER FIELD...OR ABOUT NEAR PANTHERSVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 
  40 MPH.

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

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 3375 8454 3378 8452 3384 8443 3391 8442
      3386 8434 3384 8434 3383 8435 3367 8435
      3367 8439

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 102222
SVSFFC

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

GAC121-102230-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-050710T2230Z/
FULTON-
620 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL FULTON
COUNTY...

AT 616 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ATLANTA...OR ABOUT NEAR MARIETTA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH.

THE STORM HAS BEEN SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAKENING AS IT MOVES TO THE 
NORTHEAST...BUT STILL INDICATED TO BE A DANGEROUS STORM.

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 THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT 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 3375 8454 3378 8452 3384 8443 3391 8442
      3386 8434 3384 8434 3383 8435 3367 8435
      3367 8439

$$

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, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Rockdale	13 min
Jul 10, 5:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	DeKalb	29 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

Nearby

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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.