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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2012, 9:28 AM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 24, 2012, 9:28 AM EST (14:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greene County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:48 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KFFC 241428
TORFFC
GAC133-221-265-317-241500-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0011.120224T1428Z-120224T1500Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
928 AM EST FRI FEB 24 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN TALIAFERRO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
WILKES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTH CENTRAL OGLETHORPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1000 AM EST
* AT 927 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
WOODVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RAYLE
AND WASHINGTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...HAIL OR FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL 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. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FRIDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3358 8316 3375 8322 3390 8262 3388 8260
3388 8257 3386 8256 3383 8258 3382 8259
3370 8251 3369 8252
TIME...MOT...LOC 1428Z 257DEG 39KT 3370 8305
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 8:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 8:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 8:33 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Newton | 27 min |
| Feb 24, 8:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 8:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 26 min |
| Feb 24, 9:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Spalding | 44 min |
| Feb 24, 9:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 9:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 9:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 9:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 9:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 10:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 10:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 10:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 10:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Pike | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 10:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Morgan, Putnam, Taliaferro | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 10:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe | 22 min |
| Feb 24, 11:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 11:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 11:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Heard, Troup | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 11:25 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 11:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Putnam | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 11:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 11:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette, Harris, Henry, Meriwether, Pike, Rockdale and 3 more | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 12:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 12:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 41 min |
| Feb 24, 12:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Butts, Clarke, Greene, Jasper, Jones and 10 more | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 12:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 12:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Crawford, Greene, Jasper, Lamar, Marion and 7 more | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 1:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Greene, Hancock, Houston and 10 more | 23 min |
| Feb 24, 2:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 26 min |
| Feb 24, 2:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 2:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dodge, Johnson, Laurens, Pulaski, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 3:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair and 4 more | 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.