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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 2010, 6:08 PM EST for Dodge County, Laurens County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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
- Jan 24, 2010, 6:08 PM EST (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2010, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 5:18 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 811 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 872 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
272
WFUS52 KFFC 242308
TORFFC
GAC091-175-309-250000-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0004.100124T2308Z-100125T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
608 PM EST SUN JAN 24 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHEASTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 700 PM EST
* AT 603 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CHAUNCEY...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ALAMO.
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EST MONDAY MORNING FOR
GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3207 8315 3257 8267 3252 8267 3249 8264
3245 8269 3232 8274 3228 8268 3230 8266
3227 8264 3207 8286 3212 8292 3213 8295
3211 8294 3201 8307
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 221DEG 55KT 3211 8297
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2:51 AM EST | High Wind Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:43 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 50 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:43 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 30 hr |
| Jan 24, 12:03 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 54 hr |
| Jan 24, 12:03 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Oconee | 5 days |
| Jan 24, 12:40 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 32 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 4:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 19 min |
| Jan 24, 6:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:18 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Fayette | 5 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:53 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 67 hr |
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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.