Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 80, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2011, 4:01 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 44 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
- Sep 5, 2011, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2011, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Union County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 4:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Gaddistown, GA | UNION COUNTY 911 RELAYED A REPORT OF A DOWNED TREE. |
| Sep 5, 4:10 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 S Cartecay, GA | ONE TREE BLOWN ON BURNT MOUNTAIN ROAD...ONE TREE DOWN ON CLEAR CREEK ROAD AND ONE TREE DOWN ON BIG CREEK ROAD. |
| Sep 5, 4:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Nimblewill, GA | LUMPKIN COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF 1-2 DOWNED TREES. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
647 WFUS52 KFFC 052001 TORFFC GAC085-111-123-187-227-291-052045- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0080.110905T2001Z-110905T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 401 PM EDT MON SEP 5 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHEASTERN FANNIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... EASTERN GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... WEST CENTRAL LUMPKIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... NORTHEASTERN PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 356 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF JASPER...OR 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN DAWSON...SOUTHEASTERN FANNIN... SOUTHEASTERN GILMER...WESTERN LUMPKIN AND WESTERN UNION COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3486 8438 3484 8398 3439 8422 3446 8446 TIME...MOT...LOC 2001Z 204DEG 39KT 3450 8431 $$ 56/BMX
1 follow-up statement
800 WWUS52 KFFC 052046 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 446 PM EDT MON SEP 5 2011 GAC085-111-123-187-227-291-052054- /O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0080.000000T0000Z-110905T2045Z/ UNION GA-PICKENS GA-LUMPKIN GA-DAWSON GA-FANNIN GA-GILMER GA- 446 PM EDT MON SEP 5 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN GILMER...SOUTHEASTERN FANNIN... NORTHWESTERN DAWSON...WEST CENTRAL LUMPKIN...NORTHEASTERN PICKENS AND SOUTHWESTERN UNION COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 445 PM EDT... AT 442 PM EDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED. HOWEVER ANOTHER STORM WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTY AND MAY CONTAIN WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3486 8438 3484 8398 3439 8422 3446 8446 TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 204DEG 39KT 3493 8408 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 12:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 59 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding | 23 min |
| Sep 5, 12:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Sep 5, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 20 min |
| Sep 5, 1:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 31 min |
| Sep 5, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Douglas | 35 min |
| Sep 5, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 35 min |
| Sep 5, 2:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 41 min |
| Sep 5, 2:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 48 min |
| Sep 5, 2:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 6 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 42 min |
| Sep 5, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 39 min |
| Sep 5, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 3:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 42 min |
| Sep 5, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs | 25 min |
| Sep 5, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 37 min |
| Sep 5, 3:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 31 min |
| Sep 5, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 44 min |
| Sep 5, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 40 min |
| Sep 5, 3:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 48 min |
| Sep 5, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 29 min |
| Sep 5, 4:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton | 36 min |
| Sep 5, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Henry | 47 min |
| Sep 5, 4:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 20 min |
| Sep 5, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 40 min |
| Sep 5, 4:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oconee | 49 min |
| Sep 5, 4:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 47 min |
| Sep 5, 4:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 41 min |
| Sep 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford | 48 min |
| Sep 5, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford | 18 min |
| Sep 5, 5:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Pickens | 44 min |
| Sep 5, 5:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison | 44 min |
| Sep 5, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 41 min |
| Sep 5, 6:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 39 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.