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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 8, 2006Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2006, 2:58 PM EDT for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 2006, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
32 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), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDTHAIL 1.253 Se Cedar Crossing, GASIX ACRES OF CABBAGE CROP DESTROYED.
Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDTHAIL 1.253 Se Cedar Crossing, GASIX ACRES OF CABBAGE CROP DESTROYED CAUSING AN ESTIMATED 5,000 IN DAMAGES.
Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDTHAIL 1.753 S Cedar Crossing, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 8, 1:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 491 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 081859
TORFFC
GAC279-081930-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0024.060408T1858Z-060408T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
258 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TOOMBS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH THOMPSON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  OHOOPEE...NEW BRANCH AND CEDAR CROSSING.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN 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 3196 8241 3197 8249 3210 8246 3219 8220
      3218 8218 3213 8219 3212 8220 3198 8221
      3194 8234

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 12:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade45 min
Apr 8, 12:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa, Walker37 min
Apr 8, 1:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade, Walker37 min
Apr 8, 1:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMurray, Whitfield47 min
Apr 8, 1:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMurray, Whitfield32 min
Apr 8, 2:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin, Gilmer34 min
Apr 8, 2:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Gordon37 min
Apr 8, 2:45 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCGordon15 min
Apr 8, 2:48 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCGilmer, Pickens27 min
Apr 8, 3:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Polk33 min
Apr 8, 3:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin, Lumpkin, Union31 min
Apr 8, 3:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow43 min
Apr 8, 3:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson35 min
Apr 8, 3:28 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCPaulding, Polk32 min
Apr 8, 3:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Cobb, Fulton47 min
Apr 8, 3:49 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCBartow, Cherokee26 min
Apr 8, 4:03 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCCobb, Fulton27 min
Apr 8, 4:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Forsyth, Pickens24 min
Apr 8, 4:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett45 min
Apr 8, 4:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall, Lumpkin39 min
Apr 8, 4:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson51 min
Apr 8, 4:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Walton33 min
Apr 8, 9:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCHarris3 hr
Apr 8, 11:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCMuscogee3 hr
Apr 8, 12:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion, Schley, Sumter, Webster34 min
Apr 8, 12:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Macon, Sumter31 min
Apr 8, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski, Wilcox26 min
Apr 8, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge36 min
Apr 8, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens, Telfair29 min
Apr 8, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWheeler24 min
Apr 8, 2:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery27 min
Apr 8, 2:47 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCMontgomery, Wheeler28 min
Apr 8, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCToombs24 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.