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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 15, 2006Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2006, 3:47 PM EST for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 15, 2006, 3:47 PM EST (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2006, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stewart County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 15, 1:15 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 252 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 152047
TORFFC
GAC259-152115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0039.061115T2047Z-061115T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
347 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STEWART COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EST

* AT 344 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF WESTVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  LUMPKIN...RICHLAND AND LOUVALE.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE
PLACE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 1000 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL 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 8499 3193 8472 3220 8464 3223 8481

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 152104
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
403 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

GAC259-152115-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-061115T2115Z/
STEWART GA-
403 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR STEWART
COUNTY...

AT 355 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BROOKLYN...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT 
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE 
PLACE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 1000 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL 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 8499 3193 8472 3220 8464 3223 8481

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 3:34 AM EST	Flash Flood Watch	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 27 more	24 hr
Nov 15, 3:34 AM EST	High Wind Warning	FFC	Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens, Towns and 2 more	18 hr
Nov 15, 3:34 AM EST	Wind Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more	24 hr
Nov 15, 12:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	46 min
Nov 15, 2:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart	51 min
Nov 15, 2:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	24 min
Nov 15, 2:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	31 min
Nov 15, 3:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether	37 min
Nov 15, 3:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Talbot	24 min
Nov 15, 4:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart	26 min
Nov 15, 4:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	20 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.