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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 20, 2006Marion County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2006, 9:45 PM EST for Marion County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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: Mar 20, 2006, 9:45 PM EST (02:45 UTC)
Expired: Mar 20, 2006, 10:30 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marion County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Mar 20, 9:50 PM EST	TSTM WND GST 60	5 Sw Buena Vista, GA	MINOR SHED DAMAGE.

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
Mar 20, 7:03 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 520 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 739 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 210244
TORFFC
GAC197-210330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0017.060321T0245Z-060321T0330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
945 PM EST MON MAR 20 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM EST

* AT 943 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF
  BRANTLEY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF FORT BENNING...MOVING EAST AT
  55 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  PUTNAM AND BUENA VISTA.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF 
BALL SIZED HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS UP TO 80 MPH.

TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE.

IF YOU SEE A TORNADO...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 3251 8465 3222 8465 3220 8441 3238 8440
      3254 8444

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 210322
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1021 PM EST MON MAR 20 2006

GAC197-210331-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-060321T0330Z/
MARION GA-
1021 PM EST MON MAR 20 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MARION COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1030 PM EST...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF 
THE COUNTY. RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF 
LOW LYING AREAS THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

IF YOU SAW A TORNADO...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 3251 8465 3222 8465 3220 8441 3238 8440
      3254 8444

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 8:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	55 min
Mar 20, 8:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	57 min
Mar 20, 9:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	53 min
Mar 20, 9:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee	29 min
Mar 20, 10:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Schley, Taylor	24 min
Mar 20, 10:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	17 min
Mar 20, 10:44 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton, Gwinnett	4 hr
Mar 21, 1:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	21 min
Mar 21, 2:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Putnam	37 min
Mar 21, 3:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin	18 min
Mar 21, 3:33 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Harris	4 hr
Mar 21, 6:34 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Jones	86 min
Mar 21, 8:14 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Jones	3 hr

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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.