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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2011, 5:50 PM EDT for Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 26, 2011, 5:50 PM EDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
076 WFUS52 KFFC 262150 TORFFC GAC081-093-262230- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0010.110326T2150Z-110326T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 550 PM EDT SAT MAR 26 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 544 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF CORDELE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RICHWOOD...WENONA...EAST CRISP...TREMONT AND TIPPETTVILLE. 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 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR GEORGIA. && LAT...LON 3206 8391 3211 8361 3191 8361 3188 8386 TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 259DEG 20KT 3197 8386 $$ 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 9:25 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 39 hr |
| Mar 26, 10:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 4 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wheeler | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Treutlen | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 2:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Talbot | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot, Upson | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 3:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot, Upson | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette, Spalding | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 64 min |
| Mar 26, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter, Wilcox | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Washington | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington, Wilkinson | 15 min |
| Mar 26, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Lamar, Monroe | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 54 min |
| Mar 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield, Wilkes | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.