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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 23, 2008Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2008, 8:52 AM EDT for Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 23, 2008, 8:52 AM EDT (12:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2008, 9:15 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 373 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 231252
TORFFC
GAC091-175-231315-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0082.080823T1252Z-080823T1315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
852 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  CENTRAL LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 915 AM EDT

* AT 848 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF RENTZ...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 32 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CADWELL AND DEXTER.

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.

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 3236 8318 3252 8305 3232 8284 3227 8289
TIME...MOT...LOC 1252Z 123DEG 28KT 3232 8291

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 231310
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
910 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2008

GAC091-175-231319-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0082.000000T0000Z-080823T1315Z/
DODGE GA-LAURENS GA-
909 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL LAURENS AND NORTH CENTRAL DODGE
COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 915 AM EDT...

AT 905 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE STORM THAT WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS 
DISSIPATED AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT. THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL 
BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3236 8318 3252 8305 3232 8284 3227 8289
TIME...MOT...LOC 1309Z 123DEG 28KT 3239 8304

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 7:09 PM EDT	Flood Watch	FFC	Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp, Dooly, Harris, Houston and 14 more	9 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.