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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 28, 2010Hancock County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2010, 9:41 PM EDT for Hancock County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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: Mar 28, 2010, 9:41 PM EDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2010, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Hancock County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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
Mar 28, 9:47 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	1 N Devereux, GA
Mar 28, 10:01 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	3 Nw Sparta, 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
Mar 28, 3:47 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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

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The text

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

789 
WFUS52 KFFC 290141
TORFFC
GAC141-290230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0013.100329T0141Z-100329T0230Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 938 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF SPARTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

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 3317 8318 3317 8319 3322 8322 3338 8296
      3321 8287
TIME...MOT...LOC 0142Z 245DEG 19KT 3320 8315

$$

1 follow-up statement

975 
WWUS52 KFFC 290152
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
952 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010

GAC141-290230-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-100329T0230Z/
HANCOCK GA-
952 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL
HANCOCK COUNTY...

AT 947 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 
NEAR DEVEREUX...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL TRACK 
ACROSS SPARTA...PERSONS IN THE SPARTA AREA SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE 
PLACE NOW!

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 1100 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3318 8313 3324 8317 3338 8296 3321 8287
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 243DEG 31KT 3324 8305

$$

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, 8:42 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, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.