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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 11, 2005Towns County, White County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 2005, 10:19 PM EDT for Towns County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 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 11, 2005, 10:19 PM EDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2005, 10:38 PM EDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Towns County, GA, White County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 1231 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 5.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 120220
TORFFC
GAC281-311-120245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0030.050712T0219Z-050712T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1019 PM EDT MON JUL 11 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
  WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 1012 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR CLEVELAND      
  ...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

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

GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW TORNADOES IN HILLY OR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ARE
HARD TO SEE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO.

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 3472 8383 3471 8367 3496 8359 3498 8382

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 120238
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1038 PM EDT MON JUL 11 2005

GAC281-311-120248-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-050712T0245Z/
WHITE-TOWNS-
1038 PM EDT MON JUL 11 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR TOWNS AND WHITE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SUSPECTED TO BE 
PRODUCING A TORNADO. HOWEVER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH AND 
VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

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 3472 8383 3471 8367 3496 8359 3498 8382

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 3:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee	6 hr

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.