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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 30, 2010Butts County, Henry County, Newton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 30, 2010, 4:12 PM EST for Butts County, Henry County, Newton County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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: Nov 30, 2010, 4:12 PM EST (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Nov 30, 2010, 4:45 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Butts County, GA, Henry County, GA, Newton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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
Nov 30, 4:12 PM EST	TORNADO 0	4 Sw Jenkinsburg, GA	FOUR HOMES AND ONE BUSINESS RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE...200 TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN...FOUR OUTBUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED...AND SEVERAL POWERLINES WERE DOWNED.
Nov 30, 4:20 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	3 Se Locust Grove, GA	HENRY COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF DAMAGE TO A GAS STATION PUMP SHELTER ROOF, UTILITY SHEDS, AND DOWNED POWERLINES.
Nov 30, 4:20 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	6 Wnw Jackson, GA	BUTTS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED DAMAGE TO MINI WAREHOUSES AND A GAS STATION NEAR THE COUNTY LINE ON HIGHWAY 42.
Nov 30, 4:45 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	5 S Porterdale, GA	NEWTON COUNTY 911 REPORTED 3 TREES DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 162 NORTH OF ROCKY PLAINS ROAD.

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
Nov 30, 8:43 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Nov 30, 2:34 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 407 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

155 
WFUS52 KFFC 302112
TORFFC
GAC035-151-217-302145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0036.101130T2112Z-101130T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
412 PM EST TUE NOV 30 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BUTTS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EST

* AT 410 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ABOUT 1 MILE 
  SOUTH OF LOCUST GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  NORTHERN PARTS OF JACKSON...JENKINSBURG AND PORTERDALE.

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 1000 PM EST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3355 8403 3357 8400 3368 8392 3347 8378
      3344 8381 3344 8382 3342 8383 3322 8409
      3327 8411 3330 8409 3331 8413 3340 8416
TIME...MOT...LOC 2112Z 226DEG 31KT 3329 8409

$$

1 follow-up statement

460 
WWUS52 KFFC 302131
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
431 PM EST TUE NOV 30 2010

GAC035-302140-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-101130T2145Z/
BUTTS GA-
431 PM EST TUE NOV 30 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BUTTS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE ROTATION THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.

IF YOU SAW WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...PLEASE 
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 1000 PM EST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3368 8392 3347 8378 3344 8381 3344 8383
      3342 8383 3339 8388 3345 8393 3343 8395
      3353 8401
TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 230DEG 33KT 3347 8394

$$

GAC151-217-302145-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-101130T2145Z/
HENRY GA-NEWTON GA-
431 PM EST TUE NOV 30 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR WESTERN
NEWTON AND EXTREME EAST CENTRAL HENRY COUNTIES...

AT 429 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCKY PLAINS...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
STEWART...PORTERDALE AND ALMON.

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 1000 PM EST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3368 8392 3347 8378 3344 8381 3344 8383
      3342 8383 3339 8388 3345 8393 3343 8395
      3353 8401
TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 230DEG 33KT 3347 8394

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 30, 11:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	18 min
Nov 30, 12:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	36 min
Nov 30, 12:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Murray, Whitfield	44 min
Nov 30, 12:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	29 min
Nov 30, 12:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens	42 min
Nov 30, 12:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding, Polk	46 min
Nov 30, 4:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Lamar, Newton, Spalding	42 min
Nov 30, 4:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett, Newton, Walton	23 min
Nov 30, 4:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Newton, Walton	38 min
Nov 30, 4:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	47 min
Nov 30, 4:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	23 min
Nov 30, 5:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Morgan, Oconee, Walton	45 min
Nov 30, 5:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Putnam	48 min
Nov 30, 6:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Oconee, Oglethorpe	37 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.