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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 6, 2005Newton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2005, 10:52 PM EDT for Newton County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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: Jul 6, 2005, 10:52 PM EDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2005, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Newton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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
Jul 6, 11:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 Sw Covington, GA	NUMEROUS LARGE TREES DOWN AT BART ADAMS BOY SCOUT CAMP.

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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 070252
TORFFC
GAC217-070330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0024.050707T0252Z-050707T0330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1052 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT

* AT 1049 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH
  OF PORTERDALE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSON...MOVING
  NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  OXFORD...COVINGTON AND ALMON.

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 3344 8395 3344 8381 3364 8378 3364 8394

$$

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, 9:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fayette	28 min
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, 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

Nearby

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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.