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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 1, 2022, 9:52 PM EST for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 8 min. 1 report 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
- Jan 1, 2022, 9:52 PM EST (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2022, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 8 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 9:56 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ese Morganville, GA | POWER LINE DOWNED AT SAGE DR AND SCENIC HWY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 7:53 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
689
WFUS52 KFFC 020252
TORFFC
GAC083-295-020300-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0001.220102T0252Z-220102T0300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
952 PM EST Sat Jan 1 2022
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Northwestern Walker County in northwestern Georgia...
Northern Dade County in northwestern Georgia...
* Until 1000 PM EST.
* At 951 PM EST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over Stephensville, or over Trenton, moving east at 50
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...
Trenton, Rossville, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Fairview,
Stephensville, Chattanooga Valley, New England, Morganville,
Hooker, Cole City and Wildwood.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3498 8527 3486 8527 3483 8558 3498 8560
3498 8532 3499 8531
TIME...MOT...LOC 0251Z 251DEG 45KT 3491 8553
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 9:08 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson | 39 hr |
| Jan 1, 9:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 44 min |
| Jan 2, 1:35 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 25 min |
| Jan 2, 2:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 31 min |
| Jan 2, 3:17 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 7 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:06 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 24 min |
| Jan 2, 4:09 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 18 more | 29 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 30 min |
| Jan 2, 4:39 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 36 min |
| Jan 2, 4:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison | 31 min |
| Jan 2, 5:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 31 min |
| Jan 2, 5:51 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 24 min |
| Jan 2, 6:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 34 min |
| Jan 2, 6:33 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 27 min |
| Jan 2, 6:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 24 min |
| Jan 2, 6:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 37 min |
| Jan 2, 6:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Harris, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Pike and 2 more | 46 min |
| Jan 2, 7:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones, Monroe | 37 min |
| Jan 2, 9:47 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 11 hr |
| Jan 2, 12:54 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 21 days |
| Jan 2, 1:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 25 min |
| Jan 2, 2:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 35 min |
| Jan 2, 2:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 31 min |
| Jan 2, 3:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 26 min |
| Jan 2, 3:41 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Pulaski | 34 min |
| Jan 2, 3:55 PM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 20 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:55 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Murray, Towns, Union and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 26 min |
| Jan 2, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox | 34 min |
| Jan 2, 4:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 30 min |
| Jan 2, 5:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 40 min |
| Jan 2, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler, Wilcox | 16 min |
| Jan 2, 5:41 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 34 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.