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Tornado Warning 110, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2008, 8:36 PM EDT for Jasper County, Morgan County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 26, 2008, 8:36 PM EDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2008, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jasper County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Putnam County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 26, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 740 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 270036 TORFFC GAC159-211-237-270115- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0110.080827T0036Z-080827T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 836 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 830 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GODFREY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 28 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EATONTON. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN 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 3358 8334 3336 8322 3323 8363 3339 8372 TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 241DEG 24KT 3334 8359 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 270059
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
859 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2008
GAC159-270109-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0110.000000T0000Z-080827T0115Z/
JASPER GA-
859 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN JASPER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF JASPER COUNTY...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR EASTERN GEORGIA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3326 8353 3332 8353 3333 8353 3343 8353
3346 8357 3347 8357 3358 8334 3336 8322
TIME...MOT...LOC 0059Z 241DEG 24KT 3341 8344
$$
GAC211-237-270115-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0110.000000T0000Z-080827T0115Z/
PUTNAM GA-MORGAN GA-
859 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN MORGAN AND NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTIES...
AT 853 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR REIDS CROSSROADS...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 28 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
RUDDEN...PHOENIX AND BUCKHEAD.
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE
A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR EASTERN 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 3326 8353 3332 8353 3333 8353 3343 8353
3346 8357 3347 8357 3358 8334 3336 8322
TIME...MOT...LOC 0059Z 241DEG 24KT 3341 8344
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 8:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 8 min |
| Aug 26, 11:56 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 16 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.