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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 28, 2010Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2010, 2:20 PM EDT for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 28, 2010, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2010, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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
Mar 28, 2:25 PM EDT	HAIL 1	5 N Dalton, GA
Mar 28, 2:25 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Rocky Face, GA
Mar 28, 2:26 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 Ne Dalton, GA	SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
Mar 28, 2:50 PM EDT	HAIL 1	5 W Chatsworth, GA

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 535 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 588 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

915 
WFUS52 KFFC 281820
TORFFC
GAC313-281845-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0008.100328T1820Z-100328T1845Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
220 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 218 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TUNNEL
  HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  DALTON...VARNELL AND COHUTTA.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3492 8484 3486 8482 3483 8486 3479 8484
      3467 8504 3471 8505 3471 8509 3477 8514
      3480 8513 3481 8506 3485 8506 3485 8502
      3495 8499 3500 8492 3500 8480
TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 241DEG 22KT 3480 8502

$$

1 follow-up statement

879 
WWUS52 KFFC 281823
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
223 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010

GAC313-281845-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-100328T1845Z/
WHITFIELD GA-
223 PM EDT SUN MAR 28 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM EDT FOR WHITFIELD
COUNTY...

AT 218 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR 
ROCKY FACE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
VARNELL...DAWNVILLE...COHUTTA AND BEAVERDALE.

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 FIRST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
QUARTER-SIZED HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE WIND GUSTS.

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 3492 8484 3486 8482 3483 8486 3479 8484
      3467 8504 3471 8505 3471 8509 3477 8514
      3480 8513 3481 8506 3485 8506 3485 8502
      3495 8499 3500 8492 3500 8480
TIME...MOT...LOC 1822Z 243DEG 25KT 3481 8499

$$



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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 2:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Murray	36 min
Mar 28, 2:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	30 min
Mar 28, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	35 min
Mar 28, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Putnam	31 min
Mar 28, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Putnam	25 min
Mar 28, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Wilkes	50 min
Mar 28, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	29 min
Mar 28, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe, Wilkes	38 min
Mar 28, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Macon, Peach	50 min
Mar 28, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar	24 min
Mar 28, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam	58 min
Mar 28, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Upson	23 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.