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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2006, 4:03 AM EDT for Cobb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Apr 8, 2006, 4:03 AM EDT (08:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2006, 4:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cobb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 4:15 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 8 Ne Marietta, GA | POSSIBLE TORNADO. TREES DOWN ON THREE HOUSES IN BRIGHTON WOOD SUBDIVISION OFF HIGHWAY 92 AND SANDY PLAINS ROAD. |
| Apr 8, 4:15 AM EDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Alpharetta, GA | ESTIMATED WIND GUST 60 TO 70 MPH. |
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 8, 3:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 080803 TORFFC GAC067-121-080830- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0022.060408T0803Z-060408T0830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 403 AM EDT SAT APR 8 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 430 AM EDT * AT 359 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WHITEWATER...OR ABOUT NEAR MARIETTA...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SANDY SPRINGS...ROSWELL AND ALPHARETTA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 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 3412 8452 3392 8456 3393 8422 3413 8422 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 080823 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 421 AM EDT SAT APR 8 2006 GAC067-080831- /O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-060408T0830Z/ COBB GA- 421 AM EDT SAT APR 8 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR COBB COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. IF YOU SAW WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3412 8437 3396 8435 3393 8422 3412 8412 $$
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, 2:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 27 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, 4:06 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.