Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 79, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 11:33 PM EDT for Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 2005, 11:33 PM EDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2005, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hall County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 12:10 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lula, GA | POSSIBLE TORNADO IN LULA AREA. 6 MILE PATH OF TREES DOWN. SEVERAL HOMES DAMAGED ON HEMLOCK STREET. |
| Aug 30, 12:10 AM EDT | TORNADO | Lula, GA | F0 TORNADO. DAMAGE PATH FROM ONE MILE SOUTH OF LULA TO JUST WEST OF LULA TO NEAR MOSSY CREEK IN WHITE COUNTY...JUST SOUTHEAST OF CLEVELAND. DAMAGE PATH WAS 10 MILES LONG AND ABOUT 50 YARDS WIDE. DOZENS OF TREES WERE BLOWN OVER...SOME ONTO HOMES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1046 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 300334 TORFFC GAC139-300415- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0079.050830T0333Z-050830T0415Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1133 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1215 AM EDT * AT 1129 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CANDLER...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LULA. THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH WALTON AND BARROW COUNTIES. DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SOCIAL CIRCLE AND WINDER TO STRUCTURES AND TREES. THIS STORM REMAINS STRONG AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY MINUTE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN 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 3415 8379 3430 8364 3448 8365 3449 8386 $$ RAB
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 300355 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1153 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2005 GAC139-300415- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0079.000000T0000Z-050830T0415Z/ HALL- 1153 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1215 AM EDT FOR EASTERN HALL COUNTY... AT 1148 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR HAD STRONG INDICATION OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN EXTREME EASTERN HALL COUNTY NEAR THE BANKS COUNTY LINE...OR TWO MILES SOUTHEAST OF LULA. TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM IN BARROW AND WALTON COUNTIES. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LULA AND CLERMONT. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3415 8379 3430 8364 3448 8365 3449 8386 $$ RAB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 8:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 24 min |
| Aug 29, 8:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 8:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Murray | 19 min |
| Aug 29, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Monroe | 51 min |
| Aug 29, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall, Jackson | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 10:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walton | 32 min |
| Aug 29, 10:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow | 35 min |
| Aug 29, 11:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jackson | 35 min |
| Aug 29, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 12:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | White | 34 min |
| Aug 30, 12:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Towns | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 12:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Towns | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.