Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 2010, 6:08 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 20 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
- Sep 26, 2010, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2010, 6:28 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
564
WFUS52 KFFC 262208
TORFFC
GAC317-262245-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0025.100926T2208Z-100926T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
608 PM EDT SUN SEP 26 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 606 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST
OF AONIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HOLIDAY PARK./
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.
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 3364 8262 3377 8261 3379 8257 3371 8252
3367 8250
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 241DEG 17KT 3369 8259
$$1 follow-up statement
234
WWUS52 KFFC 262228
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
628 PM EDT SUN SEP 26 2010
GAC317-262237-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-100926T2245Z/
WILKES GA-
628 PM EDT SUN SEP 26 2010
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WILKES COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED A TORNADO WARNING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN WILKES COUNTY HAS MOVED EAST INTO LINCOLN COUNTY AND
WEAKENED. WHILE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING WILL
CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF WILKES COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR...THERE IS
NO LONGER A THREAT OF TORNADOES IN WILKES COUNTY AT THIS TIME.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3364 8262 3377 8261 3379 8257 3371 8252
3367 8250
TIME...MOT...LOC 2227Z 241DEG 17KT 3374 8249
$$
19The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 4:55 AM EDT | Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee and 53 more | 37 hr |
| Sep 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe, Upson | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.