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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2005, 9:40 AM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 30, 2005, 9:40 AM EDT (13:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2005, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Stewart 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 787 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 12.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 301340 TORFFC GAC053-259-301415- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0006.050430T1340Z-050430T1415Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 940 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1015 AM EDT * AT 936 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF LOUVALE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT BENNING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RENFROE...MANTA AND CUSSETA. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. 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 3221 8512 3205 8506 3216 8463 3239 8475 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KFFC 301357 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 955 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005 GAC053-259-301415- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-050430T1415Z/ STEWART-CHATTAHOOCHEE- 955 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 AM EDT FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE AND STEWART COUNTIES... AT 953 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR JAMESTOWN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT BENNING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. A SECOND STRONG ROTATION WAS LOCATED NEAR LUMPKIN ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LUMPKIN...RICHLAND...CUSSETA...BROOKLYN...RENFROE AND MANTA. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3221 8512 3205 8506 3216 8463 3239 8475 $$
000 WWUS52 KFFC 301414 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1014 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005 GAC053-259-301424- /O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-050430T1415Z/ STEWART-CHATTAHOOCHEE- 1014 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE AND STEWART COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 1015 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON. 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 3221 8512 3205 8506 3216 8463 3239 8475 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 5:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 6:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 6:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 6:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 6:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 6:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 6:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 7:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 9:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 9:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Webster | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Sumter, Taylor | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 10:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Apr 30, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 25 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.