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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 6, 2005Troup County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2005, 5:02 PM EDT for Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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 6, 2005, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2005, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Troup County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 6, 1:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 062102
TORFFC
GAC285-062130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0008.050706T2102Z-050706T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
502 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 459 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF
  WEST POINT...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF LANETT...MOVING NORTH AT 35
  MPH.

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

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING 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 3283 8526 3278 8512 3308 8486 3314 8522

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 062112
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
512 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

GAC285-062130-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050706T2130Z/
TROUP-
512 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR TROUP COUNTY...

AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LONG CANE...OR
ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF WEST POINT...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ABBOTTSFORD...LA GRANGE AND LOUISE.

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.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING 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 3283 8526 3278 8512 3308 8486 3314 8522

$$

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 062130
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
529 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

GAC285-062139-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050706T2130Z/
TROUP-
529 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR TROUP COUNTY EXPIRES AT 530 PM EDT...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND SEVERE 
WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING 
FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...INCLUDING TROUP COUNTY.

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 3283 8526 3278 8512 3308 8486 3314 8522

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 4:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	38 min
Jul 6, 5:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris	31 min
Jul 6, 5:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Heard	41 min
Jul 6, 5:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Stewart	15 min
Jul 6, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Meriwether	44 min
Jul 6, 6:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Meriwether	23 min
Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Coweta	31 min
Jul 6, 6:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris	22 min
Jul 6, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	46 min
Jul 6, 7:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fayette	25 min
Jul 6, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	23 min
Jul 6, 7:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Meriwether	18 min
Jul 6, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton	37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.