Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 17, 2008, 4:44 PM EST for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 4 reports 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
- Feb 17, 2008, 4:44 PM EST (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2008, 5:20 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Stewart County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 4:50 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 N Omaha, GA | ONE TREE ON A COUNTY VEHICLE. POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
| Feb 17, 4:50 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Omaha, GA | TREE DOWN OVER TWO VEHICLES. |
| Feb 17, 4:50 PM EST | TORNADO | 4 S Omaha, GA | NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN, POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
| Feb 17, 4:50 PM EST | TORNADO | Omaha, GA | MULTIPLE TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN, SOME OVER VEHICLES. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 1:32 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 438 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KFFC 172145
TORFFC
GAC259-172230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0008.080217T2144Z-080217T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
444 PM EST SUN FEB 17 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 530 PM EST
* AT 440 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
FLORENCE MARINA STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LOUVALE.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO A
BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
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 900 PM EST SUNDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
900 PM EST SUNDAY EVENING 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 3208 8507 3209 8505 3214 8506 3222 8496
3223 8492 3222 8491 3222 8465 3221 8465
3202 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 239DEG 39KT 3211 8510
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KFFC 172158
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
457 PM EST SUN FEB 17 2008
GAC259-172230-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080217T2230Z/
STEWART GA-
457 PM EST SUN FEB 17 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM EST FOR
NORTHWESTERN STEWART COUNTY...
AT 455 PM EST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO IN RUSSELL COUNTY
ALABAMA. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR OMAHA AND THE ALABAMA STATE
LINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LOUVALE AND PROVIDENCE CANYON STATE PARK.
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3208 8507 3209 8505 3214 8506 3222 8496
3223 8492 3222 8491 3222 8465 3221 8465
3202 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2157Z 239DEG 39KT 3218 8496
$$000
WWUS52 KFFC 172220
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
519 PM EST SUN FEB 17 2008
GAC259-172229-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080217T2230Z/
STEWART GA-
519 PM EST SUN FEB 17 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN STEWART COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT
OF NORTHWESTERN STEWART COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY.
HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THROUGH
THE EVENING HOURS AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA
UNTIL 800 PM EST.
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 3208 8507 3209 8505 3214 8506 3222 8496
3223 8492 3222 8491 3222 8465 3221 8465
3202 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 239DEG 39KT 3230 8472
$$
19The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 4:21 AM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson and 12 more | 18 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Heard, Paulding | 24 min |
| Feb 17, 3:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 33 min |
| Feb 17, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 35 min |
| Feb 17, 3:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton | 23 min |
| Feb 17, 4:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, Paulding | 23 min |
| Feb 17, 4:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 34 min |
| Feb 17, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton | 33 min |
| Feb 17, 4:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| Feb 17, 4:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Feb 17, 5:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 43 min |
| Feb 17, 5:26 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 33 min |
| Feb 17, 5:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taylor | 45 min |
| Feb 17, 5:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 40 min |
| Feb 17, 6:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford | 33 min |
| Feb 17, 6:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster | 34 min |
| Feb 17, 6:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb | 38 min |
| Feb 17, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Schley, Sumter | 26 min |
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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.