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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 13, 2005Bartow County, Warren County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 13, 2005, 5:53 PM EST for Bartow County, Warren County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2005, 5:53 PM EST (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2005, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 39 days
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bartow County, GA, Warren County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 13, 5:40 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 132253
TORFFC
GAC301-132330-
/X.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0003.050113T2254Z-050113T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
554 PM EST THU JAN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EST

* AT 550 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME
  NORTHEASTERN GLASCOCK COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF
  THOMSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST FRIDAY MORNING
FOR 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 3333 8265 3330 8242 3332 8236 3346 8258

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 212230
TORFFC
GAC015-212315-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0003.050221T2231Z-050221T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
531 PM EST MON FEB 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EST

* AT 528 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  ADAIRSVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF CALHOUN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

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

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 3443 8495 3433 8502 3428 8479 3437 8470

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 3:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Murray	39 days
Jan 13, 4:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Oglethorpe	39 days
Jan 13, 4:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Hancock	33 min
Jan 13, 5:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Warren	39 days
Jan 13, 5:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren	24 min
Jan 13, 5:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Oconee	39 days

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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.