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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 6:52 PM EDT for DeKalb County, Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
- Aug 29, 2005, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Rockdale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 292252 TORFFC GAC089-247-292330- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0055.050829T2252Z-050829T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 652 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 648 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF LITHONIA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF STOCKBRIDGE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO STONE MOUNTAIN...REDAN...CLARKSTON AND AVONDALE ESTATES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN 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 3364 8426 3355 8406 3385 8416 3384 8431 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 18 min |
| Aug 29, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 40 min |
| Aug 29, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Rockdale | 35 min |
| Aug 29, 4:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 38 min |
| Aug 29, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 18 min |
| Aug 29, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 6:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 43 min |
| Aug 29, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 28 min |
| Aug 29, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 40 min |
| Aug 29, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taylor | 18 min |
| Aug 29, 6:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Henry | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 6:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Upson | 24 min |
| Aug 29, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 33 min |
| Aug 29, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 33 min |
| Aug 29, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 28 min |
| Aug 29, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 6:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 6:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 7:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 7:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 7:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fannin | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 7:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 7:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 7:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | White | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 7:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walton | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 7:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Monroe | 57 min |
| Aug 29, 7:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fulton | 34 min |
| Aug 29, 7:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fannin | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 7:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Peach | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 33 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.