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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 15, 2011Harris County, Meriwether County, Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2011, 7:51 PM EDT for Harris County, Meriwether County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 15, 2011, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2011, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Harris County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
Apr 15, 7:55 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Hamilton, GA	TREES CRASHING DOWN
Apr 15, 7:57 PM EDT	HAIL 1	2 E Pine Mountain Valle, GA
Apr 15, 8:09 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Manchester, GA

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
Apr 15, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

359 
WFUS52 KFFC 152351
TORFFC
GAC145-199-263-160030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0019.110415T2351Z-110416T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
751 PM EDT FRI APR 15 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 747 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HAMILTON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PINE
  MOUNTAIN-CALLAWAY GARDENS...WAVERLY HALL...SHILOH...WARM SPRINGS...
  MANCHESTER...WOODLAND AND WOODBURY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF 
BALL SIZED HAIL OR LARGER AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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 MIDNIGHT EDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3303 8454 3297 8452 3297 8454 3295 8452
      3292 8453 3290 8451 3288 8450 3288 8448
      3285 8449 3285 8447 3268 8439 3268 8491
      3279 8497
TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 245DEG 28KT 3275 8488

$$

1 follow-up statement

349 
WWUS52 KFFC 160008
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
808 PM EDT FRI APR 15 2011

GAC145-199-263-160030-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-110416T0030Z/
TALBOT GA-MERIWETHER GA-HARRIS GA-
808 PM EDT FRI APR 15 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN HARRIS...SOUTHEASTERN MERIWETHER AND NORTHERN TALBOT
COUNTIES...

AT 803 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED NEAR SHILOH...MOVING EAST AT 40 
MPH.  THIS STORM PRODUCED BASEBALL SIZED HAIL IN HAMILTON...GEORGIA 
AT 745 PM.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WARM
SPRINGS...FLINT HILL...MANCHESTER...RALEIGH...WOODLAND...WOODBURY AND
PLEASANT HILL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
BASEBALL SIZED HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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 MIDNIGHT EDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3303 8455 3297 8452 3297 8454 3295 8452
      3292 8453 3288 8450 3288 8448 3285 8449
      3275 8442 3271 8472 3286 8483
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 249DEG 33KT 3282 8469

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 4:12 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	FFC	Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 18 more	16 hr
Apr 15, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Murray, Pickens	51 min
Apr 15, 5:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens	46 min
Apr 15, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens	23 min
Apr 15, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Fannin, Lumpkin, Union	46 min
Apr 15, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	25 min
Apr 15, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	46 min
Apr 15, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	40 min
Apr 15, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd, Gordon	52 min
Apr 15, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray	49 min
Apr 15, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, Paulding, Polk	46 min
Apr 15, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Paulding	23 min
Apr 15, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	38 min
Apr 15, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Fulton	34 min
Apr 15, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	38 min
Apr 15, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton	47 min

Nearby

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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.