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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2006, 6:07 PM EDT for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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
- May 14, 2006, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2006, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 6:21 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 Ne Davisboro, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 142207 TORFFC GAC303-142230- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0032.060514T2207Z-060514T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 607 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 605 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SANDERSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WARTHEN AND DAVISBORO. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN 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 3313 8284 3295 8287 3288 8251 3312 8257 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KFFC 142218 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 617 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2006 GAC303-142230- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-060514T2230Z/ WASHINGTON GA- 617 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY... AT 613 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DAVISBORO...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF SANDERSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3313 8284 3295 8287 3288 8251 3312 8257 $$
000 WWUS52 KFFC 142231 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 630 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2006 GAC303-142240- /O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-060514T2230Z/ WASHINGTON GA- 630 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 630 PM EDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS INDICATED ON RADAR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN 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 3313 8284 3295 8287 3288 8251 3312 8257 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 45 min |
| May 13, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 29 min |
| May 13, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 26 min |
| May 13, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 30 min |
| May 13, 9:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 23 min |
| May 13, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 38 min |
| May 13, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns | 26 min |
| May 13, 10:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 36 min |
| May 13, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe | 32 min |
| May 13, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 49 min |
| May 13, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 31 min |
| May 13, 10:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 29 min |
| May 13, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 51 min |
| May 13, 11:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 46 min |
| May 13, 11:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Webster | 28 min |
| May 13, 11:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 37 min |
| May 14, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 37 min |
| May 14, 4:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 18 min |
| May 14, 4:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 15 min |
| May 14, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 16 min |
| May 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 27 min |
| May 14, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 26 min |
| May 14, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Washington | 22 min |
| May 14, 4:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 14, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 35 min |
| May 14, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 14, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Pulaski | 30 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.