Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 10
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 2, 2006, 4:47 PM EST for 59 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2006, 4:47 PM EST (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2006, 9:35 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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.
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 5:28 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, 6:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 34 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 9:26 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Lauderdale | 59 min |
| Jan 2, 7:45 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 30 min |
| Jan 2, 8:10 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 2, 10:47 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 23 more | 88 min |
| Jan 2, 12:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 3 more | 94 min |
| Jan 2, 4:20 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah and 6 more | 85 min |
| Jan 2, 11:43 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Charlton and 17 more | 92 min |
| Jan 2, 1:23 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 2, 6:16 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson and 11 more | 89 min |
| Jan 2, 6:58 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Emanuel and 17 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.