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Tornado Warning 88, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 28, 2005Sumter County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Dec 28, 2005, 3:14 PM EST for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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: Dec 28, 2005, 3:14 PM EST (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2005, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sumter County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 28, 3:26 PM EST	HAIL 4.25	5 N Americus, GA	SOFTBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED 5 MILES NORTH OF AMERICUS ON HIGHWAY 19.
Dec 28, 3:30 PM EST	HAIL 2	6 N Americus, GA
Dec 28, 3:32 PM EST	HAIL 1.75	Americus, GA	PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT AMERICUS.

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
Dec 28, 1:40 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 282014
TORFFC
GAC261-282045-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0088.051228T2014Z-051228T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
314 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 312 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PLAINS...OR
  ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF AMERICUS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING
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 3215 8447 3198 8441 3207 8397 3220 8410

$$

TDP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 28, 1:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	20 min
Dec 28, 1:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	31 min
Dec 28, 1:42 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Marion	18 min
Dec 28, 1:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Taylor	37 min
Dec 28, 2:01 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	29 min
Dec 28, 2:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crawford, Macon, Peach	28 min
Dec 28, 2:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart	32 min
Dec 28, 2:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Houston, Peach, Twiggs	30 min
Dec 28, 2:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter, Webster	26 min
Dec 28, 2:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	46 min
Dec 28, 3:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Pulaski	30 min
Dec 28, 3:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley	27 min
Dec 28, 3:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens	33 min
Dec 28, 3:16 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski	29 min
Dec 28, 3:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Peach, Twiggs, Wilkinson	24 min
Dec 28, 3:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones, Monroe	34 min
Dec 28, 3:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Sumter	27 min
Dec 28, 3:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson	50 min
Dec 28, 3:42 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski	33 min
Dec 28, 3:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens, Washington	46 min
Dec 28, 3:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Newton	27 min
Dec 28, 3:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones, Monroe	37 min
Dec 28, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Wilcox	30 min
Dec 28, 4:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski	35 min
Dec 28, 4:11 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens	34 min
Dec 28, 4:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	31 min
Dec 28, 4:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart	24 min
Dec 28, 4:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Pulaski	34 min
Dec 28, 4:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	33 min
Dec 28, 4:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot	32 min
Dec 28, 4:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington, Wilkinson	31 min
Dec 28, 4:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Jefferson, Johnson	29 min
Dec 28, 4:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	37 min
Dec 28, 4:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	35 min
Dec 28, 4:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox	34 min
Dec 28, 4:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	45 min
Dec 28, 4:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson, Washington	33 min
Dec 28, 5:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	34 min
Dec 28, 5:13 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	47 min
Dec 28, 5:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	16 min
Dec 28, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	30 min
Dec 28, 5:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Treutlen	23 min
Dec 28, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	31 min
Dec 28, 6:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	26 min
Dec 28, 6:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson	34 min
Dec 28, 6:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	28 min
Dec 28, 6:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	31 min
Dec 28, 6:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Washington	48 min
Dec 28, 6:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pickens	51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.