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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 6, 2009Dade County, Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 6, 2009, 3:19 PM EST for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 17 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: Jan 6, 2009, 3:19 PM EST (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Jan 6, 2009, 3:36 PM EST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 295 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 391 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 062019
TORFFC
GAC083-295-062100-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0001.090106T2019Z-090106T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
319 PM EST TUE JAN 6 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EST

* AT 318 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF LA FAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CEDAR
  GROVE...DAVIS CROSSROADS...LINWOOD...NAOMI...NOBLE AND VILLNOW.

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 3484 8521 3477 8520 3476 8515 3472 8516
      3471 8505 3467 8505 3458 8543 3458 8553
      3459 8554 3467 8555
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 245DEG 35KT 3461 8552

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 062036
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
336 PM EST TUE JAN 6 2009

GAC083-295-062045-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-090106T2100Z/
DADE GA-WALKER GA-
335 PM EST TUE JAN 6 2009

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN WALKER AND SOUTH CENTRAL DADE
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

AT 335 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE ROTATION IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD WEAKENED AND IS NO 
LONGER SUSPECTED TO BE PRODUCING A TORNADO. HOWEVER...A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST. RADAR 
CONTINUES TO INDICATE THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 
AROUND 60 MPH.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE 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 3484 8521 3477 8520 3476 8515 3472 8516
      3471 8505 3467 8505 3458 8543 3458 8553
      3459 8554 3467 8555
TIME...MOT...LOC 2035Z 250DEG 35KT 3471 8528

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 6, 6:45 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	24 hr
Jan 6, 6:51 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	57 hr
Jan 6, 7:57 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	15 hr
Jan 6, 8:46 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Bartow, Chattooga, Cherokee, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon and 1 more	24 hr
Jan 6, 9:40 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Hall, Lumpkin, Towns and 2 more	22 hr
Jan 6, 10:56 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee	33 hr
Jan 6, 12:20 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Polk	13 hr
Jan 6, 12:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	47 hr
Jan 6, 12:46 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	24 hr
Jan 6, 3:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Dade, Walker	45 min
Jan 6, 3:37 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	15 hr
Jan 6, 4:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	64 min
Jan 6, 4:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	50 min
Jan 6, 5:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	52 min
Jan 6, 5:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	4 days

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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.