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Tornado Warning 115, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 10, 2008Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Dec 10, 2008, 3:03 PM EST for Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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: Dec 10, 2008, 3:03 PM EST (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Dec 10, 2008, 3:30 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 388 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 447 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 102003
TORFFC
GAC319-102030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0115.081210T2003Z-081210T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
303 PM EST WED DEC 10 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 PM EST

* AT 300 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR IRWINTON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

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.

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 3298 8313 3292 8306 3285 8304 3279 8326
      3289 8332
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 247DEG 22KT 3286 8324

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 102028
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
328 PM EST WED DEC 10 2008

GAC319-102037-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0115.000000T0000Z-081210T2030Z/
WILKINSON GA-
327 PM EST WED DEC 10 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN WILKINSON COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED 
TO EXPIRE AT 330 PM EST...

THE ROTATION THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER 
EXPECTED TO PRODUCE A TORNADO. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL REMAIN 
POSSIBLE AS THE STORM MOVES INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY.

IF YOU SAW WIND DAMAGE...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 3298 8313 3292 8306 3285 8304 3279 8326
      3289 8332
TIME...MOT...LOC 2027Z 247DEG 22KT 3292 8308

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 10, 4:25 AM EST	Flash Flood Watch	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 30 more	6 hr
Dec 10, 5:22 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga	38 min
Dec 10, 5:53 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray and 2 more	6 hr
Dec 10, 7:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Paulding, Polk	33 min
Dec 10, 7:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	34 min
Dec 10, 8:15 AM EST	High Wind Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White	3 hr
Dec 10, 9:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale	29 min
Dec 10, 10:11 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	6 hr
Dec 10, 10:49 AM EST	Flood Watch	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more	28 hr
Dec 10, 2:30 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	31 hr
Dec 10, 4:23 PM EST	Wind Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more	41 hr
Dec 10, 5:30 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	28 min
Dec 10, 5:58 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.