Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2008, 8:17 PM EST for Cobb County, Paulding 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
- Mar 7, 2008, 8:17 PM EST (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2008, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cobb County, GA, Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 96 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 080117 TORFFC GAC067-223-080145- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0018.080308T0117Z-080308T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 817 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 845 PM EST * AT 814 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIRAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO POWDER SPRINGS. 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 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 3399 8475 3391 8458 3379 8474 3378 8490 TIME...MOT...LOC 0117Z 218DEG 30KT 3377 8484 $$
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KFFC 080129
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
830 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008
GAC067-223-080145-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-080308T0145Z/
PAULDING GA-COBB GA-
830 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM EST FOR WEST
CENTRAL COBB AND EAST CENTRAL PAULDING COUNTIES...
AT 827 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HIRAM...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO POWDER
SPRINGS.
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE
A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3381 8479 3385 8485 3399 8475 3391 8459
3390 8460
TIME...MOT...LOC 0130Z 218DEG 30KT 3386 8479
$$000
WWUS52 KFFC 080143
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
841 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008
GAC067-223-080151-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-080308T0145Z/
PAULDING GA-COBB GA-
841 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL COBB AND EAST CENTRAL
PAULDING COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 845 PM EST...
AT 839 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE
STORM THAT MAY HAVE HAD A TORNADO EARLIER HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY.
THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 845 PM.
IF SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST BEYOND THE EXPIRATION TIME
OF THIS WARNING...A NEW WARNING WILL BE ISSUED.
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 3381 8479 3385 8485 3399 8475 3392 8459
3390 8460
TIME...MOT...LOC 0141Z 218DEG 30KT 3393 8472
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 7:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Paulding | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 2:36 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 34 more | 12 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.