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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2006, 2:48 AM EDT for Gilmer County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Apr 8, 2006, 2:48 AM EDT (06:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2006, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Gilmer County, GA, Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:00 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cartecay, GA | TREES SNAPPED ALONG RACKLEY ROAD. ALSO...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. |
| Apr 8, 3:00 AM EDT | HAIL 1 | Cartecay, GA | |
| Apr 8, 3:05 AM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Cartecay, GA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 9:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 080648 TORFFC GAC123-227-080715- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0019.060408T0648Z-060408T0715Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 248 AM EDT SAT APR 8 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 315 AM EDT * AT 243 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF WHITESTONE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF CALHOUN...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TALONA. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN 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 3458 8471 3447 8469 3449 8436 3473 8429 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 080655 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 300 AM EDT SAT APR 8 2006 GAC123-227-080715- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-060408T0715Z/ PICKENS GA-GILMER GA- 300 AM EDT SAT APR 8 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR SOUTHERN GILMER AND NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTIES... AT 256 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG THE PICKENS GILMER COUNTY LINE NEAR WHITESTONE. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CARTECAY AND ROY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3458 8471 3447 8469 3449 8436 3473 8429 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 1:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 1:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 2:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 2:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 2:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 15 min |
| Apr 8, 3:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 3:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Union | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 3:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 3:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 3:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 3:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 4:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 4:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Pickens | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 4:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 4:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin | 39 min |
| Apr 8, 4:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 4:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 9:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Harris | 3 hr |
| Apr 8, 11:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 3 hr |
| Apr 8, 12:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Macon, Sumter | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Telfair | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wheeler | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 2:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Toombs | 32 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.