Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 18, 2013, 5:31 PM EDT for 6 counties in 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
- Mar 18, 2013, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2013, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chattooga County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Murray County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
325
WFUS52 KFFC 182131
TORFFC
GAC055-115-129-213-295-313-182215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0009.130318T2131Z-130318T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
531 PM EDT MON MAR 18 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTHERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
SOUTHERN WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH TWO AREAS OF ROTATION. ONE IS 2 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CENTER POST AND ANOTHER IS 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRION.
THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CALHOUN...RESACA...DALTON...CHATSWORTH AND ETON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE
PLACE.
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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST GEORGIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3451 8469 3442 8537 3472 8548 3476 8545
3480 8520 3477 8520 3477 8515 3482 8513
3489 8469
TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 262DEG 52KT 3460 8524
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 11:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens | 48 min |
| Mar 18, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Mar 18, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Murray and 2 more | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 24 min |
| Mar 18, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Polk | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas and 5 more | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Troup | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart, Webster | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and 3 more | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer and 5 more | 52 min |
| Mar 18, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 52 min |
| Mar 18, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Sumter | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 64 min |
| Mar 18, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Meriwether, Monroe, Pike, Upson | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam, Spalding | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Lamar, Monroe | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam | 64 min |
| Mar 18, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Schley, Sumter | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Hancock, Houston, Jefferson and 6 more | 57 min |
| Mar 18, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Crawford, Dodge, Houston, Macon, Peach and 3 more | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren, Washington | 59 min |
| Mar 18, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Sumter, Wilcox | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Wilcox | 49 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.