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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 1, 2016Emanuel County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 2016, 11:15 AM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 15 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 1, 2016, 11:15 AM EDT (15:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2016, 11:30 AM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Emanuel County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 1, 7:26 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

As transmitted.

980 
WFUS52 KFFC 011515
TORFFC
GAC107-011530-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0008.160401T1515Z-160401T1530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1115 AM EDT FRI APR 1 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 1130 AM EDT
    
* AT 1115 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR STILLMORE...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  METTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  STILLMORE AND GEORGE L SMITH STATE PARK. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

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 3252 8215 3248 8218 3244 8219 3245 8225
      3254 8223 3256 8208
TIME...MOT...LOC 1515Z 274DEG 22KT 3249 8220 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

1 follow-up statement

227 
WWUS52 KFFC 011525
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1125 AM EDT FRI APR 1 2016

GAC107-011535-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160401T1530Z/
EMANUEL GA-
1125 AM EDT FRI APR 1 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL EMANUEL COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
1130 AM EDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR EAST CENTRAL
GEORGIA.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
PEACHTREE CITY.

LAT...LON 3252 8215 3248 8218 3244 8219 3245 8225
      3254 8223 3256 8208
TIME...MOT...LOC 1521Z 274DEG 22KT 3249 8220 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 10:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Meriwether, Troup	41 min
Mar 31, 11:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Harris, Henry, Lamar and 7 more	64 min
Mar 31, 11:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Gordon	40 min
Apr 1, 12:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Morgan, Newton, Putnam	48 min
Apr 1, 12:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Jackson	32 min
Apr 1, 12:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Spalding, Upson	43 min
Apr 1, 1:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Pike, Talbot and 1 more	40 min
Apr 1, 1:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Lamar, Marion, Talbot, Taylor, Upson	41 min
Apr 1, 2:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crawford, Marion, Talbot, Taylor, Upson	33 min
Apr 1, 3:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	40 min
Apr 1, 4:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington, Wilkinson	42 min
Apr 1, 4:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette, Henry, Pike, Spalding	44 min
Apr 1, 4:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	24 min
Apr 1, 5:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Troup	44 min
Apr 1, 6:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Monroe, Muscogee, Pike, Talbot, Taylor and 1 more	44 min
Apr 1, 6:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Peach, Taylor	46 min
Apr 1, 6:54 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crawford, Peach, Taylor	36 min
Apr 1, 7:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Houston, Peach, Twiggs	30 min
Apr 1, 7:58 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	32 min
Apr 1, 8:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	31 min
Apr 1, 8:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	41 min
Apr 1, 8:52 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson	38 min
Apr 1, 9:29 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson	4 days
Apr 1, 9:29 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Jones	25 hr
Apr 1, 9:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	29 min
Apr 1, 10:02 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	31 hr
Apr 1, 10:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	12 min
Apr 1, 10:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	35 min
Apr 1, 11:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart, Webster	42 min
Apr 1, 12:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	35 min
Apr 1, 12:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon	28 min
Apr 1, 12:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter, Webster	23 min
Apr 1, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	28 min
Apr 1, 1:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson	5 days
Apr 1, 1:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs	51 hr
Apr 1, 1:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Putnam	21 hr
Apr 1, 1:53 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson	26 hr
Apr 1, 1:53 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson	5 days
Apr 1, 1:53 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dooly, Macon, Sumter	42 hr
Apr 1, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	34 min
Apr 1, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Wheeler	47 min
Apr 1, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	25 min
Apr 1, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Washington	47 min
Apr 1, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair, Wilcox	21 min
Apr 1, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	49 min
Apr 1, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Harris, Houston, Jones and 9 more	18 hr
Apr 1, 3:45 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler	24 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.