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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 15, 2008Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2008, 8:13 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 15, 2008, 8:13 PM EDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Laurens County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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
Mar 15, 4:36 PM EDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 160013
TORFFC
GAC175-160045-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0054.080316T0013Z-080316T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
813 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 810 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NORTHWEST OF 
  DUBLIN...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  BREWTON AND LOVETT.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING 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 3247 8269 3259 8311 3265 8310 3265 8308
      3271 8297 3271 8285 3268 8280 3265 8279
      3261 8268
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 281DEG 46KT 3266 8298

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 160030
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
829 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008

GAC175-160045-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0054.000000T0000Z-080316T0045Z/
LAURENS GA-
829 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN LAURENS COUNTY...

AT 820 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. 
THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BREWTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 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 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 3255 8297 3265 8295 3271 8292 3271 8290
      3271 8285 3268 8280 3265 8279 3261 8268
      3247 8269
TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 280DEG 46KT 3262 8270

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	43 min
Mar 15, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson, Washington	32 min
Mar 15, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	25 min
Mar 15, 8:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel	22 min
Mar 15, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	33 min
Mar 15, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	30 min
Mar 15, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	39 min
Mar 15, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	44 min
Mar 16, 11:41 AM EDT	Red Flag Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Crisp, Dooly, Harris, Macon, Marion and 7 more	8 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.