Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2010

Tornado Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 28, 2010Glascock County, Warren County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2010, 8:42 PM EDT for Glascock County, Warren County, 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, 8:42 PM EDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2010, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Glascock County, GA, Warren County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

030 
WFUS52 KFFC 290042
TORFFC
GAC125-301-290130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0012.100329T0042Z-100329T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
842 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GLASCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 838 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST 
  OF GIBSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ROTATION IN THIS STORM HAS
  INCREASED. PERSONS IN THE PATH SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW!

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

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3323 8251 3320 8261 3336 8274 3348 8259
      3348 8258 3345 8258 3341 8254 3336 8254
      3336 8251 3335 8250 3335 8244 3332 8239
TIME...MOT...LOC 0041Z 246DEG 23KT 3325 8272

$$

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, 8:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington	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

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2010 Every tornado warning in 2010 Tornadoes in 2010

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.