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Tornado Warning 120, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 10, 2009Talbot County, Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2009, 5:36 PM EDT for Talbot County, Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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: May 10, 2009, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2009, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 10, 5:45 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Talbotton, GA

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 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 102136
TORFFC
GAC263-269-102215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0120.090510T2136Z-090510T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
536 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHWESTERN TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 535 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  TALBOTTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  GENEVA AND JUNCTION CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE
PLACE.

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 8445 3256 8445 3255 8450 3257 8466
      3274 8463 3272 8427 3253 8429
TIME...MOT...LOC 2136Z 279DEG 21KT 3265 8460

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 102159
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
559 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2009

GAC263-269-102215-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0120.000000T0000Z-090510T2215Z/
TAYLOR GA-TALBOT GA-
559 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2009

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN TALBOT AND NORTHWESTERN TAYLOR COUNTIES...

AT 557 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 
NEAR BALDWINVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HOWARD...PRATTSBURG...WESLEY CHURCH AND CARSONVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 8445 3256 8445 3256 8446 3256 8447
      3273 8444 3272 8427 3253 8429
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 279DEG 21KT 3263 8445

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	45 min
May 10, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Talbot	55 min
May 10, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson	63 min
May 10, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Marion, Schley, Taylor	55 min
May 10, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach	59 min
May 10, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Macon, Peach	64 min
May 10, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	48 min
May 10, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Pulaski	23 min
May 10, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.