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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 28, 2014Dade County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2014, 9:29 PM EDT for Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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: Apr 28, 2014, 9:29 PM EDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2014, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Dade County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 28, 6:37 PM EDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	6 hr
Apr 28, 8:59 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1019 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 335 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.7
Supercell composite: 15.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

684 
WFUS52 KFFC 290129
TORFFC
GAC083-290200-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0008.140429T0129Z-140429T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
929 PM EDT MON APR 28 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 923 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO SOUTHWEST OF 
  TRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  STEPHENSVILLE...NEW ENGLAND...COLE CITY...MORGANVILLE...WILDWOOD
  AND HOOKER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW! TORNADOES IN HILLY OR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ARE
HARD TO SEE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO.

TAKE COVER NOW! TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE.

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 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 8537 3498 8537 3485 8544 3478 8558
      3498 8561 3499 8560
TIME...MOT...LOC 0129Z 215DEG 31KT 3487 8558

$$

2 follow-up statements

422 
WWUS52 KFFC 290140
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
940 PM EDT MON APR 28 2014

GAC083-290200-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-140429T0200Z/
DADE GA-
940 PM EDT MON APR 28 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
DADE COUNTY...

AT 937 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW ENGLAND... 
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MORGANVILLE...HOOKER AND WILDWOOD

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW! TORNADOES IN HILLY OR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ARE
HARD TO SEE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO.

TAKE COVER NOW! TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE.

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 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3488 8550 3488 8557 3499 8557 3499 8537
      3495 8539
TIME...MOT...LOC 0139Z 221DEG 31KT 3493 8550

$$

695 
WWUS52 KFFC 290152
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
952 PM EDT MON APR 28 2014

GAC083-290201-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-140429T0200Z/
DADE GA-
952 PM EDT MON APR 28 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN DADE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1000
PM EDT...

THE STORM IS MOVING OUT OF DADE COUNTY AND THE WARNING WILL BE 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1000 PM EDT. 

IF YOU SAW 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 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3488 8550 3488 8557 3499 8557 3499 8537
      3495 8539
TIME...MOT...LOC 0151Z 221DEG 31KT 3501 8541

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	17 min
Apr 28, 11:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Walker	45 min
Apr 28, 11:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	27 min
Apr 29, 2:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Dade, Walker	46 min
Apr 29, 3:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	51 min
Apr 29, 3:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Dade, Walker	51 min
Apr 29, 3:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	6 hr
Apr 29, 4:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Whitfield	24 min
Apr 29, 4:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	50 min
Apr 29, 4:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee	60 min
Apr 29, 5:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	44 min
Apr 29, 5:03 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	42 min
Apr 29, 6:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart, Sumter, Webster	51 min
Apr 29, 7:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Peach, Pulaski and 1 more	57 min
Apr 29, 7:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer, Pickens	68 min
Apr 29, 8:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Sumter, Wilcox	57 min
Apr 29, 9:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Wilcox	56 min
Apr 29, 9:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski	30 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.