Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2009, 10:41 AM EDT for Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 4 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
- Mar 28, 2009, 10:41 AM EDT (14:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2009, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 10:42 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 8 W Cordele, GA | FIVE TO SIX TREES AND A FEW POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN NEAR THE GEORGIA VETERANS STATE PARK AND HIGHWAY 280. |
| Mar 28, 10:50 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Vienna, GA | SIX HOMES WITH MINOR ROOF DAMAGE. SOME TREES ON HOMES. SEVERAL TREES DOWN INCLUDING SIX PECAN TREES. ALL DAMAGE ALONG PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD BETWEEN TRUMAN ROAD AND STEELE ROAD. |
| Mar 28, 10:50 AM EDT | TORNADO 0 | 4 Nw Vienna, GA | APPEARANT EF0 TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF VIENNA ALONG PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD BETWEEN TRUMAN ROAD AND STEELE ROAD. PATH LENGTH 500 YARDS. PATH WIDTH 50 YARDS. SIX HOMES WITH MINOR ROOF DAMAGE... SHINGLES AND GUTTERING BLOWN OFF. METAL CARPO |
| Mar 28, 10:54 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cordele, GA | A FEW POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN NEAR 15TH STREET. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KFFC 281441
TORFFC
GAC081-093-281530-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0048.090328T1441Z-090328T1530Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1041 AM EDT SAT MAR 28 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1130 AM EDT
* AT 1038 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF LILLY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CORDELE...VIENNA AND PINEHURST.
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.
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHERN GEORGIA.
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 3186 8395 3187 8394 3194 8393 3207 8398
3209 8397 3213 8400 3225 8361 3223 8360
3190 8361 3185 8394
TIME...MOT...LOC 1441Z 254DEG 30KT 3205 8394
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 281515
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1115 AM EDT SAT MAR 28 2009
GAC081-093-281524-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-090328T1530Z/
CRISP GA-DOOLY GA-
1115 AM EDT SAT MAR 28 2009
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DOOLY AND CRISP COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS EXITED DOOLY AND CRISP COUNTIES.
SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED.
IF YOU OBSERVED WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT
FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3186 8395 3187 8394 3194 8393 3207 8398
3209 8397 3213 8400 3225 8361 3223 8360
3190 8361 3185 8394
TIME...MOT...LOC 1514Z 254DEG 30KT 3212 8363
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 1:38 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 16 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:04 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 42 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:35 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 30 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:50 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Spalding | 17 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 9:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Webster | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 10:07 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Sumter | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 10:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Schley, Sumter | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 11:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Pulaski, Wilcox | 59 min |
| Mar 28, 11:26 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 48 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:26 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs | 4 days |
| Mar 28, 11:26 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 7 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:26 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 21 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs and 2 more | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 1:07 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 31 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 59 min |
| Mar 28, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jones | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs, Wheeler | 22 min |
| Mar 28, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Spalding | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 19 min |
| Mar 28, 4:40 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:40 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson | 12 days |
| Mar 28, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Oconee, Walton | 27 min |
| Mar 28, 5:56 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson | 24 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Harris | 6 hr |
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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.