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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 1, 2009Bleckley County, Dodge County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2009, 4:07 AM EST for Bleckley County, Dodge 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: Mar 1, 2009, 4:07 AM EST (09:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 2009, 4:30 AM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 010907
TORFFC
GAC023-091-010930-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0044.090301T0907Z-090301T0930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
407 AM EST SUN MAR 1 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 430 AM EST

* AT 405 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EASTMAN...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CHESTER.

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 3243 8317 3218 8300 3212 8323 3224 8337
TIME...MOT...LOC 0907Z 228DEG 43KT 3224 8324

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 7:48 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson	13 hr
Feb 28, 7:58 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	12 hr
Feb 28, 10:50 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes	42 hr
Feb 28, 11:01 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs	4 days
Mar 1, 3:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox	25 min
Mar 1, 4:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	26 min
Mar 1, 4:35 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	25 min
Mar 1, 5:20 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	25 min
Mar 1, 5:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler	24 min
Mar 1, 7:57 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette, Spalding	9 hr
Mar 1, 1:37 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Butts, Carroll, Clarke, Clayton and 34 more	9 hr
Mar 1, 4:37 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Spalding	12 hr
Mar 1, 5:58 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	16 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.