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Tornado Warning 123, NWS Atlanta, GA

October 12, 2009Bleckley County, Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2009, 2:32 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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: Oct 12, 2009, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired: Oct 12, 2009, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.5 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 511 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 121832
TORFFC
GAC023-091-175-121915-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0123.091012T1832Z-091012T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
232 PM EDT MON OCT 12 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTH CENTRAL DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WEST CENTRAL LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 231 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CHESTER...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 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 3261 8295 3238 8289 3234 8328 3250 8332
TIME...MOT...LOC 1832Z 255DEG 19KT 3243 8321

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 121855
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
255 PM EDT MON OCT 12 2009

GAC023-091-121904-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0123.000000T0000Z-091012T1915Z/
DODGE GA-BLECKLEY GA-
255 PM EDT MON OCT 12 2009

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN BLECKLEY AND NORTH CENTRAL DODGE
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTIES AND THUS THE WARNING HAS 
BEEN CANCELLED.

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 8311 3245 8315 3251 8319 3254 8320
      3261 8295 3247 8292 3238 8289
TIME...MOT...LOC 1854Z 255DEG 19KT 3246 8308

$$

GAC175-121915-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0123.000000T0000Z-091012T1915Z/
LAURENS GA-
255 PM EDT MON OCT 12 2009

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL LAURENS COUNTY...

AT 253 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DEXTER...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
DUDLEY...RENTZ AND HARLOW.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3236 8311 3245 8315 3251 8319 3254 8320
      3261 8295 3247 8292 3238 8289
TIME...MOT...LOC 1854Z 255DEG 19KT 3246 8308

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 12, 3:46 AM EDT	Flood Watch	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll and 56 more	18 hr
Oct 12, 8:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton and 2 more	6 hr
Oct 12, 9:11 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	54 hr
Oct 12, 9:11 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	28 hr
Oct 12, 9:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup	45 min
Oct 12, 10:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson	6 hr
Oct 12, 11:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Oconee	5 days
Oct 12, 11:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Heard	50 hr
Oct 12, 11:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas	49 hr
Oct 12, 11:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	50 hr
Oct 12, 11:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs	5 days
Oct 12, 11:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	48 hr
Oct 12, 11:38 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett, Walton	12 hr
Oct 12, 11:52 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	23 hr
Oct 12, 2:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	40 min
Oct 12, 2:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	78 min
Oct 12, 2:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton and 2 more	9 hr
Oct 12, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	41 min
Oct 12, 4:38 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Rockdale	35 hr
Oct 12, 4:38 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Elbert, Madison, Oglethorpe	21 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.