Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 2006, 5:28 PM EST for DeKalb County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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, 5:28 PM EST (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2006, 5:50 PM EST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeKalb County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 5:30 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Se Chamblee, GA | CONSIDERABLE ROOF DAMAGE TO ONE HOUSE NEAR I-85 AND SHALLOWFORD ROAD. |
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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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 022228 TORFFC GAC089-022300- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0004.060102T2228Z-060102T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 528 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 600 PM EST * AT 527 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TUCKER... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DORAVILLE AND CHAMBLEE. 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 3397 8432 3383 8432 3381 8407 3397 8423 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 022250 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 550 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006 GAC089-022300- /O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060102T2300Z/ DEKALB GA- 550 PM EST MON JAN 2 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DEKALB COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF NORTHERN DEKALB COUNTY AND SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3397 8432 3383 8432 3381 8407 3397 8423 $$
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, 5:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 27 min |
| Jan 2, 5:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 34 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.