Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 2013, 2:30 PM EST for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 45 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
- Jan 30, 2013, 2:30 PM EST (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2013, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Harris County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2:45 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Pine Mountain Valley, GA | SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN. |
| Jan 30, 3:13 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Greenville, GA | MULTIPLE TREES HAVE COME DOWN DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 8:11 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jan 30, 1:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
304
WFUS52 KFFC 301930
TORFFC
GAC145-199-231-263-285-293-302015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0006.130130T1930Z-130130T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
230 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHEASTERN TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 315 PM EST
* AT 228 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HAMILTON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PINE
MOUNTAIN-CALLAWAY GARDENS...SHILOH...WARM SPRINGS...MANCHESTER...
GREENVILLE...WOODBURY...MOLENA...GAY...CONCORD...ZEBULON AND
WILLIAMSON.
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...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 800 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3321 8459 3319 8449 3317 8426 3261 8484
3261 8509 3268 8511
TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 216DEG 48KT 3275 8484
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 7:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 40 min |
| Jan 30, 8:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard and 1 more | 52 min |
| Jan 30, 8:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 39 min |
| Jan 30, 9:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 61 min |
| Jan 30, 10:21 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 39 min |
| Jan 30, 10:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Floyd, Gordon, Pickens | 46 min |
| Jan 30, 11:30 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray | 45 min |
| Jan 30, 12:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 48 min |
| Jan 30, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, Paulding | 45 min |
| Jan 30, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard, Paulding | 40 min |
| Jan 30, 12:54 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 24 hr |
| Jan 30, 1:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Pickens | 45 min |
| Jan 30, 1:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton and 2 more | 44 min |
| Jan 30, 1:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fulton, Heard | 41 min |
| Jan 30, 1:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 40 min |
| Jan 30, 1:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot and 1 more | 39 min |
| Jan 30, 2:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth and 2 more | 44 min |
| Jan 30, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall, Lumpkin, Towns and 2 more | 51 min |
| Jan 30, 2:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette, Harris, Henry and 3 more | 41 min |
| Jan 30, 2:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton | 39 min |
| Jan 30, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett and 6 more | 45 min |
| Jan 30, 3:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Harris, Meriwether, Pike and 3 more | 46 min |
| Jan 30, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot | 52 min |
| Jan 30, 3:27 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Union | 6 hr |
| Jan 30, 3:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 29 min |
| Jan 30, 3:46 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Towns | 5 hr |
| Jan 30, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart, Webster | 43 min |
| Jan 30, 3:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Crawford, Jasper, Lamar, Marion, Monroe and 2 more | 32 min |
| Jan 30, 4:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 29 min |
| Jan 30, 4:20 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton, Gwinnett | 3 hr |
| Jan 30, 4:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Crisp, Macon, Marion, Peach and 6 more | 66 min |
| Jan 30, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe | 48 min |
| Jan 30, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Sumter | 31 min |
| Jan 30, 5:03 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam | 57 min |
| Jan 30, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Dooly, Houston, Jones and 7 more | 52 min |
| Jan 30, 5:32 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 14 hr |
| Jan 30, 5:32 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 13 hr |
| Jan 30, 5:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 42 min |
| Jan 30, 5:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 62 min |
| Jan 30, 6:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dooly, Glascock, Houston, Pulaski and 4 more | 61 min |
| Jan 30, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington, Wilkinson | 45 min |
| Jan 30, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more | 41 min |
| Jan 30, 6:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Warren, Washington | 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.