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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 2010, 4:24 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2010, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Emanuel County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4:31 PM EDT | HAIL 1.25 | Swainsboro, GA | |
| Oct 25, 4:40 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Swainsboro, GA | |
| Oct 25, 5:00 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Swainsboro, GA | AT 438 EAST MAIN ST. |
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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
650
WFUS52 KFFC 252024
TORFFC
GAC107-252115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0031.101025T2024Z-101025T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
424 PM EDT MON OCT 25 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 515 PM EDT
* AT 422 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
SWAINSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
STILLMORE...TWIN CITY AND GARFIELD.
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 3253 8203 3255 8209 3252 8214 3247 8218
3244 8218 3242 8239 3251 8243 3264 8247
3278 8213 3267 8209 3262 8201 3260 8200
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 261DEG 21KT 3258 8232
$$
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, 3:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 45 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.