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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2014, 4:29 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- Nov 23, 2014, 4:29 PM EST (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2014, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crawford County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 4:35 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Musella, GA | NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES REPORTED DOWN IN CRAWFORD COUNTY. |
| Nov 23, 4:40 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Culloden, GA | PATH OF WIND DAMAGE STARTS NEAR CULLODEN ON HWY 74 AND CONTINUES NORTHEAST. MULTIPLE TREES DOWN AND TREE TOPS SNAPPED. |
| Nov 23, 4:40 PM EST | TORNADO | 2 Nw Dyas, GA | A TORNADO TRACKED FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS MONROE COUNTY. THE TORNADO CAUSED A BARN COLLAPSE...PEELED A ROOF OFF OF A SECOND BARN...DESTROYED A SHED AND DOWNED MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES. THE TORNADO PATH ENDS NEAR JULIETTE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 1:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
769
WFUS52 KFFC 232129
TORFFC
GAC079-171-207-293-232200-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0021.141123T2129Z-141123T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
429 PM EST SUN NOV 23 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
SOUTHEASTERN UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...
SOUTHEASTERN LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 500 PM EST
* AT 428 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF ROBERTA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CULLODEN...RUSSELLVILLE...SALEM...MUSELLA AND BRENT.
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 OR TWEET US YOUR REPORT AT NWSATLANTA.
&&
LAT...LON 3269 8420 3270 8420 3270 8421 3272 8422
3272 8424 3273 8423 3274 8423 3273 8425
3274 8425 3304 8399 3291 8382 3268 8418
TIME...MOT...LOC 2128Z 223DEG 44KT 3273 8418
$$1 follow-up statement
620
WWUS52 KFFC 232151
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
451 PM EST SUN NOV 23 2014
GAC079-293-232159-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-141123T2200Z/
UPSON GA-CRAWFORD GA-
451 PM EST SUN NOV 23 2014
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN UPSON AND NORTHWESTERN
CRAWFORD COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT
OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3285 8397 3286 8398 3285 8398 3285 8412
3289 8412 3304 8399 3291 8382 3285 8392
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 223DEG 44KT 3292 8397
$$
GAC171-207-232200-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-141123T2200Z/
MONROE GA-LAMAR GA-
451 PM EST SUN NOV 23 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EST FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MONROE AND SOUTHEASTERN LAMAR COUNTIES...
AT 449 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM
WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF FORSYTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CULLODEN...RUSSELLVILLE AND BRENT.
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 OR TWEET US YOUR REPORT AT NWSATLANTA.
&&
LAT...LON 3285 8397 3286 8398 3285 8398 3285 8412
3289 8412 3304 8399 3291 8382 3285 8392
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 223DEG 44KT 3292 8397
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 11:09 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard, Troup | 21 min |
| Nov 23, 11:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fayette, Haralson, Heard | 28 min |
| Nov 23, 11:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Clayton, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Haralson | 33 min |
| Nov 23, 12:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 2:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 54 min |
| Nov 23, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee | 40 min |
| Nov 23, 3:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot | 28 min |
| Nov 23, 3:42 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley, Webster | 33 min |
| Nov 23, 3:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 32 min |
| Nov 23, 3:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Troup | 35 min |
| Nov 23, 4:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 29 min |
| Nov 23, 4:06 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Dooly, Macon, Peach, Schley, Sumter and 1 more | 39 min |
| Nov 23, 4:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Spalding, Upson | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 4:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 22 min |
| Nov 23, 4:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Lamar, Spalding | 30 min |
| Nov 23, 4:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam | 39 min |
| Nov 23, 4:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Bleckley, Houston, Jones, Peach, Pulaski and 2 more | 31 min |
| Nov 23, 5:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Dodge, Hancock, Houston and 8 more | 52 min |
| Nov 23, 5:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Morgan, Newton, Walton | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Dodge, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson and 9 more | 37 min |
| Nov 23, 6:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Taliaferro, Warren and 2 more | 36 min |
| Nov 23, 6:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 29 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.