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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 2, 2006Clayton County, Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 2006, 4:38 PM EST for Clayton County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. 8 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, 4:38 PM EST (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2006, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clayton County, GA, Fulton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 4:45 PM EST	HAIL 0.75	College Park, GA
Jan 2, 4:45 PM EST	NON-TSTM WND DMG	Palmetto, GA	PHIPPS ROAD AND HWY. 29 NEAR I-85 AT EXIT 66
Jan 2, 4:50 PM EST	HAIL 0.75	Fairburn, GA
Jan 2, 4:55 PM EST	TORNADO	3 N Tyrone, GA	F2 TORNADO WITH A PATH 7 MILES LONG AND A QUATER OF A MILE WIDE.
Jan 2, 5:05 PM EST	HAIL 1	Morrow, GA
Jan 2, 5:15 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	College Park, GA	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
Jan 2, 5:15 PM EST	HAIL 0.75	College Park, GA
Jan 2, 5:20 PM EST	HAIL 1.75	Jonesboro, GA

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

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 27 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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 022138
TORFFC
GAC063-121-022215-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0001.060102T2138Z-060102T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
438 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 434 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
  PALMETTO...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF NEWNAN...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO UNION
  CITY...RIVERDALE...MORROW...HAPEVILLE...FOREST PARK...FAIRBURN...
  EAST POINT...CONLEY...COLLEGE PARK AND ATLANTA HARTSFIELD-JACKSON
  AIRPORT.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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 3363 8485 3350 8483 3352 8429 3369 8429

$$

TDP

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, 12:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	18 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, 4:54 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.