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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 2, 2006Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2006, 12:12 PM EST for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 18 min. 3 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: Jan 2, 2006, 12:12 PM EST (17:12 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2006, 12:30 PM EST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Toombs County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 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 2, 12:23 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	11 S Lyons, GA	CORRECTION TO EARLIER REPORT OF TORNADO NEAR HIGHWAY 1 JUST EAST OF CEDAR CROSSING. DAMAGE CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS...NOT TORNADO. TWO TRAILER HOMES DESTROYED AND MANY TREES AND POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN.
Jan 2, 12:23 PM EST	TORNADO	11 S Lyons, GA	EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR HIGHWAY 1 JUST EAST OF CEDAR CROSSING. TWO TRAILER HOMES DESTROYED AND MANY TREES AND POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN.
Jan 2, 12:32 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	3 N Reidsville, GA	ROOF OFF A HOUSE ON HIGHWAY 23.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 021712
SVRFFC
GAC279-021730-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0002.060102T1712Z-060102T1730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1212 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TOOMBS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1230 PM EST

* AT 1208 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SOUTH THOMPSON...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  VIDALIA AND LYONS.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

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 3220 8243 3201 8235 3211 8210 3232 8221

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 2, 8:48 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton, Gwinnett	3 hr
Jan 2, 11:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart, Webster	33 min
Jan 2, 12:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Taylor	24 min
Jan 2, 4:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Fulton	46 min
Jan 2, 4:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard	49 min
Jan 2, 4:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	40 min
Jan 2, 4:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fulton	37 min
Jan 2, 4:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette, Fulton	51 min
Jan 2, 5:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Pike, Spalding	37 min
Jan 2, 5:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	47 min
Jan 2, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	54 min
Jan 2, 5:24 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Meriwether	27 min
Jan 2, 5:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	34 min
Jan 2, 5:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	DeKalb	22 min
Jan 2, 5:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Butts, Spalding	29 min
Jan 2, 5:35 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	48 min
Jan 2, 5:37 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Lamar	23 min
Jan 2, 5:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Newton, Rockdale	33 min
Jan 2, 5:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	28 min
Jan 2, 5:51 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Monroe	39 min
Jan 2, 5:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	24 min
Jan 2, 6:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar	29 min
Jan 2, 6:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	21 min
Jan 2, 6:25 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bibb, Monroe	35 min
Jan 2, 6:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jasper, Jones	33 min
Jan 2, 6:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Putnam	30 min
Jan 2, 6:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Taliaferro	40 min
Jan 2, 6:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson	34 min

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.