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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2005, 9:08 PM EDT for Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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
- Jul 6, 2005, 9:08 PM EDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 9:36 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fayette County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:25 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Woolsey, GA | SEVERAL TREES DOWN |
| Jul 6, 9:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Fayetteville, GA | FEW TREES DOWN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 684 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 980 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 070107 TORFFC GAC113-070145- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0020.050707T0108Z-050707T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 908 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 906 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTH OF KENWOOD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PEACHTREE CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WOOLSEY...INMAN AND BROOKS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER 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. LAT...LON 3327 8449 3327 8443 3349 8438 3352 8445 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 070136 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 936 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005 GAC113-070146- /O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-050707T0145Z/ FAYETTE- 936 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SUSPECTED TO BE PRODUCING A TORNADO. HOWEVER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSING PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY AND SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3327 8449 3327 8443 3349 8438 3352 8445 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 8:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pike | 12 min |
| Jul 6, 8:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 9:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 9:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 10:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 10:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 10:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 11:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oconee | 18 min |
| Jul 7, 12:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Madison | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Madison | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.