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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 2010, 3:51 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min. 4 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
- Oct 25, 2010, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2010, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Emanuel County, GA, Treutlen County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:12 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Swainsboro, GA | 1 TREE DOWN ON HWY 221 NORTH. |
| Oct 25, 4:12 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Swainsboro, GA | |
| Oct 25, 4:31 PM EDT | HAIL 1.25 | Swainsboro, GA | |
| Oct 25, 4:40 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Swainsboro, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
016
WFUS52 KFFC 251951
TORFFC
GAC107-283-252030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0030.101025T1951Z-101025T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
351 PM EDT MON OCT 25 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN TREUTLEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 349 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF
SWAINSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
NUNEZ.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL GEORGIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3243 8269 3248 8264 3251 8264 3253 8257
3257 8259 3264 8251 3264 8247 3269 8250
3277 8241 3279 8241 3284 8231 3283 8229
3248 8229
TIME...MOT...LOC 1951Z 237DEG 25KT 3261 8260
$$
16The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 5:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 43 min |
| Oct 25, 5:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 25 min |
| Oct 25, 5:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 49 min |
| Oct 25, 5:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 23 min |
| Oct 25, 5:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 41 min |
| Oct 25, 6:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield | 31 min |
| Oct 25, 6:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 38 min |
| Oct 25, 6:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens | 44 min |
| Oct 25, 6:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 6:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 23 min |
| Oct 25, 6:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Heard | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 6:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 43 min |
| Oct 25, 7:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 49 min |
| Oct 25, 7:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton, Henry and 2 more | 51 min |
| Oct 25, 10:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 10:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington | 49 min |
| Oct 25, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Treutlen | 42 min |
| Oct 25, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 49 min |
| Oct 25, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wilkinson | 53 min |
| Oct 25, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 52 min |
| Oct 25, 2:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 26 min |
| Oct 25, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 38 min |
| Oct 25, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 25 min |
| Oct 25, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 36 min |
| Oct 25, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 4:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 51 min |
| Oct 25, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 46 min |
| Oct 25, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 24 min |
| Oct 25, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston | 28 min |
| Oct 25, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 21 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.