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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 4, 2015, 1:06 PM EST for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Jan 4, 2015, 1:06 PM EST (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2015, 1:30 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Emanuel County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 11:37 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 700 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
061
WFUS52 KFFC 041806
TORFFC
GAC107-041830-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0002.150104T1806Z-150104T1830Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
106 PM EST SUN JAN 4 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 130 PM EST
* AT 105 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DELLWOOD OR 5 MILES NORTH OF
SWAINSBORO...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
SWAINSBORO...SUMMERTOWN...MODOC...COLEMANS LAKE...DELLWOOD...THREE
POINTS AND CANOOCHEE.
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 3258 8237 3269 8243 3282 8232 3283 8231
3283 8226 3281 8225 3281 8223 3280 8221
3281 8220 3281 8215 3269 8210
TIME...MOT...LOC 1805Z 228DEG 60KT 3270 8236
$$1 follow-up statement
284
WWUS52 KFFC 041823
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
123 PM EST SUN JAN 4 2015
GAC107-041831-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150104T1830Z/
EMANUEL GA-
123 PM EST SUN JAN 4 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN EMANUEL COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
130 PM EST...
THE ROTATION IN THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED
SOME AND WILL MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY AROUND 130 PM EST. THEREFORE
THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3258 8237 3269 8243 3282 8232 3283 8231
3283 8226 3281 8225 3281 8223 3280 8221
3281 8220 3281 8215 3269 8210
TIME...MOT...LOC 1819Z 228DEG 60KT 3270 8236
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 7:06 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 39 min |
| Jan 3, 7:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 21 min |
| Jan 3, 7:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 8:49 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Union | 26 min |
| Jan 3, 9:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 9:41 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 9:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 10:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Polk | 22 min |
| Jan 3, 10:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Paulding | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 10:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 10:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 25 min |
| Jan 4, 1:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 1:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 2:32 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 26 more | 10 hr |
| Jan 4, 3:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 37 min |
| Jan 4, 3:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Paulding | 28 min |
| Jan 4, 3:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 22 hr |
| Jan 4, 4:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 30 min |
| Jan 4, 4:26 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Paulding | 34 min |
| Jan 4, 4:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 30 min |
| Jan 4, 5:04 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 5:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton | 35 min |
| Jan 4, 5:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Troup | 34 min |
| Jan 4, 5:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 23 min |
| Jan 4, 5:40 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 35 min |
| Jan 4, 5:53 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 10 hr |
| Jan 4, 5:53 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 46 hr |
| Jan 4, 6:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 30 min |
| Jan 4, 6:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Newton, Pike, Spalding | 35 min |
| Jan 4, 6:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 30 min |
| Jan 4, 6:40 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Spalding | 35 min |
| Jan 4, 6:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison | 33 min |
| Jan 4, 6:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Talbot | 31 min |
| Jan 4, 7:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 4 hr |
| Jan 4, 7:23 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 14 hr |
| Jan 4, 7:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 29 min |
| Jan 4, 8:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 27 min |
| Jan 4, 8:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Monroe | 24 min |
| Jan 4, 9:12 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 7 hr |
| Jan 4, 9:39 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 7 days |
| Jan 4, 10:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Haralson | 7 days |
| Jan 4, 10:50 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 7 days |
| Jan 4, 10:50 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 7 days |
| Jan 4, 11:07 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 23 min |
| Jan 4, 11:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski | 23 min |
| Jan 4, 12:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 29 min |
| Jan 4, 12:02 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 12:31 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 7 days |
| Jan 4, 12:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 29 min |
| Jan 4, 12:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Laurens, Treutlen | 37 min |
| Jan 4, 12:52 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 7 days |
| Jan 4, 1:38 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 19 hr |
| Jan 4, 3:39 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 10 hr |
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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.