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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2010, 8:12 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 28, 2010, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2010, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
419 WFUS52 KFFC 290012 TORFFC GAC125-141-301-303-290100- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0011.100329T0012Z-100329T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 812 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL GLASCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA EAST CENTRAL HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTH CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 809 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF MITCHELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HAMBURG STATE PARK...AGRICOLA...SHOALS...JEWELL...MAYFIELD AND BEALL SPRINGS. 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 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 1100 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA. && LAT...LON 3339 8276 3322 8261 3312 8295 3318 8300 TIME...MOT...LOC 0012Z 233DEG 23KT 3318 8292 $$
1 follow-up statement
466 WWUS52 KFFC 290058 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 858 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010 GAC125-141-301-303-290107- /O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-100329T0100Z/ WASHINGTON GA-GLASCOCK GA-HANCOCK GA-WARREN GA- 858 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WARREN...EAST CENTRAL HANCOCK...WEST CENTRAL GLASCOCK AND NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 900 PM EDT... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. HOWEVER ANOTHER STRONG STORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL WAS CENTERED 6 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF SPARTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR THIS AREA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3339 8276 3322 8261 3312 8295 3318 8300 TIME...MOT...LOC 0057Z 233DEG 23KT 3335 8265 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren | 66 min |
| Mar 28, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 51 min |
| Mar 28, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Putnam | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 58 min |
| Mar 28, 9:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 10:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 10:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 59 min |
| Mar 28, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Putnam | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 3:48 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 23 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.