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Tornado Warning 104, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 13, 2009Telfair County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 2009, 12:44 PM EDT for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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: Apr 13, 2009, 12:44 PM EDT (16:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2009, 1:32 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Telfair County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 13, 1:05 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Jacksonville, GA	SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN NEAR JACKSONVILLE ALONG HWY. 441.
Apr 13, 1:15 PM EDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	9 Sw Lumber City, GA	FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED ALONG HWY. 117 BETWEEN JACKSONVILLE AND LUMBER CITY.
Apr 13, 1:35 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Lumber City, GA

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
Apr 13, 12:32 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 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 131644
TORFFC
GAC271-131745-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0104.090413T1644Z-090413T1745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1244 PM EDT MON APR 13 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 1244 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF
  JACKSONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  JACKSONVILLE AND LUMBER CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3178 8307 3181 8310 3181 8314 3184 8319
      3185 8318 3187 8317 3199 8272 3192 8266
      3187 8274 3184 8276 3184 8278 3178 8287
      3178 8298 3177 8302
TIME...MOT...LOC 1644Z 257DEG 23KT 3176 8321

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 131732
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
132 PM EDT MON APR 13 2009

GAC271-131742-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0104.000000T0000Z-090413T1745Z/
TELFAIR GA-
132 PM EDT MON APR 13 2009

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN TELFAIR COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT 
OF SOUTHERN TELFAIR COUNTY AND SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3178 8307 3181 8310 3181 8314 3184 8319
      3185 8318 3187 8317 3199 8272 3192 8266
      3187 8274 3184 8276 3184 8278 3178 8287
      3178 8298 3177 8302
TIME...MOT...LOC 1732Z 257DEG 23KT 3183 8286

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 2:16 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	FFC	Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 27 more	8 hr
Apr 13, 3:28 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	FFC	Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson and 15 more	7 hr
Apr 13, 6:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	39 min
Apr 13, 9:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Sumter	42 min
Apr 13, 9:56 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 49 more	4 hr
Apr 13, 10:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs	44 min
Apr 13, 11:34 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Oconee	21 hr
Apr 13, 12:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	65 min
Apr 13, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	38 min
Apr 13, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	47 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.