Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 2006, 5:24 PM EST for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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, 5:24 PM EST (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2006, 5:51 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 5:45 PM EST | HAIL 1.75 | 2 N Greenville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 4:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 022225 TORFFC GAC199-022300- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0003.060102T2224Z-060102T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 524 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 600 PM EST * AT 522 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR GREENVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WOODBURY AND IMLAC. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST MONDAY EVENING 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 3310 8481 3293 8474 3299 8452 3318 8456 $$ KDF
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 022251 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 551 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006 GAC199-022301- /O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060102T2300Z/ MERIWETHER GA- 551 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL MERIWETHER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF MERIWETHER COUNTY AND SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3310 8481 3293 8474 3299 8452 3318 8456 $$
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, 4:38 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, 5:26 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 |
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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.