Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 77, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2009, 7:50 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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 10, 2009, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2009, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clarke County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Madison County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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 10, 7:51 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 5 Se Nicholson, GA | |
| Apr 10, 8:30 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Colbert, 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 10, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 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 102350
TORFFC
GAC059-157-195-221-110030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0077.090410T2350Z-090411T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
750 PM EDT FRI APR 10 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CLARKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
NORTHERN OGLETHORPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 749 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ATHENS...
MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WHITEHALL...HULL...WINTERVILLE...COLBERT...COMER AND CARLTON.
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 1000 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3396 8280 3391 8341 3393 8343 3393 8351
3404 8355 3415 8306 3406 8299 3404 8294
3401 8293 3399 8283 3397 8279
TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 260DEG 43KT 3400 8340
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 7:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Polk, Walker | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 8:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 34 min |
| Apr 10, 8:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Paulding, Polk | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union, White | 42 min |
| Apr 10, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 13 min |
| Apr 10, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 27 min |
| Apr 10, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 47 min |
| Apr 10, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Walker | 37 min |
| Apr 10, 4:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 22 min |
| Apr 10, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 44 min |
| Apr 10, 5:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens | 25 min |
| Apr 10, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 49 min |
| Apr 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 62 min |
| Apr 10, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 40 min |
| Apr 10, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 64 min |
| Apr 10, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 49 min |
| Apr 10, 5:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 28 min |
| Apr 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 14 min |
| Apr 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 24 min |
| Apr 10, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | White | 23 min |
| Apr 10, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 37 min |
| Apr 10, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 6:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 49 min |
| Apr 10, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 47 min |
| Apr 10, 6:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 28 min |
| Apr 10, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union, White | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin | 34 min |
| Apr 10, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall | 44 min |
| Apr 10, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 67 min |
| Apr 10, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 47 min |
| Apr 10, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 25 min |
| Apr 10, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 47 min |
| Apr 10, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 44 min |
| Apr 10, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 52 min |
| Apr 10, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 7:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson, Madison | 29 min |
| Apr 10, 7:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard | 40 min |
| Apr 10, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding, Polk | 49 min |
| Apr 10, 7:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Spalding | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 7:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 47 min |
| Apr 10, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding | 40 min |
| Apr 10, 7:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 36 min |
| Apr 10, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 31 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.