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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2012, 9:40 AM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
- Feb 24, 2012, 9:40 AM EST (14:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 10:30 AM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greene County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Putnam County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 9:55 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 6 Se Madison, GA | SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN NEAR U.S. HIGHWAY 129. |
| Feb 24, 10:00 AM EST | FUNNEL CLOUD | Harmony, GA | FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY TWO SPOTTERS AND THREE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. |
| Feb 24, 10:05 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Greensboro, GA | THE 911 CENTER REPORTED A FEW POWER LINES DOWN ALONG WILLOW RUN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:48 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 241440
TORFFC
GAC133-159-211-237-241530-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0012.120224T1440Z-120224T1530Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
940 AM EST FRI FEB 24 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
WESTERN GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1030 AM EST
* AT 936 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
SHADY DALE...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BUCKHEAD...PHOENIX...REYNOLDS PLANTATION AND GREENSBORO.
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 3339 8312 3330 8357 3350 8367 3367 8315
3343 8306
TIME...MOT...LOC 1441Z 256DEG 56KT 3340 8360
$$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, 9:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.