Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2011, 3:44 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. 2 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 26, 2011, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2011, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 26, 4:00 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Roland, GA | ON GEORGIA 36. |
| Mar 26, 4:25 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 S Log Town, GA | LOGTOWN ROAD AND ALLEN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 67 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.
140
WFUS52 KFFC 261944
TORFFC
GAC199-263-293-262030-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0006.110326T1944Z-110326T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
344 PM EDT SAT MAR 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 339 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WOODLAND...THOMASTON AND YATESVILLE.
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 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3291 8470 3294 8412 3281 8412 3279 8415
3271 8419 3272 8423 3274 8423 3273 8425
3275 8429 3273 8429 3271 8434 3273 8469
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 270DEG 25KT 3282 8458
$$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, 3:46 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, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.