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Tornado Warning 90, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2011, 5:16 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Dawson County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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
- Sep 5, 2011, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cherokee County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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.
597
WFUS52 KFFC 052116
TORFFC
GAC057-085-227-052200-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0090.110905T2116Z-110905T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
516 PM EDT MON SEP 5 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 514 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HOLLY
SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CANTON...BUFFINGTON...WALESKA...BALL GROUND...NELSON...JASPER AND
TALKING ROCK.
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 3459 8422 3411 8446 3416 8466 3455 8453
3456 8450 3455 8448 3456 8449 3456 8447
3455 8446 3456 8443 3455 8437 3458 8433
3457 8426 3460 8425
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 200DEG 34KT 3419 8454
$$2 follow-up statements
109
WWUS52 KFFC 052128
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
528 PM EDT MON SEP 5 2011
GAC057-085-227-052200-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0090.000000T0000Z-110905T2200Z/
PICKENS GA-CHEROKEE GA-DAWSON GA-
528 PM EDT MON SEP 5 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN DAWSON...CHEROKEE AND PICKENS COUNTIES...
AT 523 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. STRONG ROTATION WITH THIS STORM WAS REPORTED BY
A STORM SPOTTER. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CANTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BUFFINGTON...WALESKA...BALL GROUND...TALMADGE...NELSON...REAVIS
MOUNTAIN...TATE...JASPER...MARBLEHILL...TALKING ROCK...LAKE
TAMARACK...FAUSETT LAKE...AMICALOLA FALLS STATE PARK AND SEQUOYAH
LAKE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3459 8422 3411 8446 3416 8466 3455 8453
3456 8450 3455 8448 3456 8449 3456 8447
3455 8446 3456 8443 3455 8437 3458 8433
3457 8426 3460 8425
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 207DEG 30KT 3425 8449
$$546
WWUS52 KFFC 052200
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
600 PM EDT MON SEP 5 2011
GAC057-085-227-052209-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0090.000000T0000Z-110905T2200Z/
PICKENS GA-CHEROKEE GA-DAWSON GA-
600 PM EDT MON SEP 5 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN DAWSON...CHEROKEE AND PICKENS
COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 600 PM EDT...
THE STORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE EARLIER WARNING WAS LOCATED NEAR
MARBLEHILL AT 555 PM AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ALTHOUGH
THERE WAS STILL ROTATION IN THE STORM...IT WAS WEAK AND THUS THE
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6PM.
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 1100 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
LAT...LON 3459 8422 3411 8446 3416 8466 3455 8453
3456 8450 3455 8448 3456 8449 3456 8447
3455 8446 3456 8443 3455 8437 3458 8433
3457 8426 3460 8425
TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 211DEG 29KT 3447 8431
$$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, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens, Union | 44 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 | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.