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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 7, 2007Paulding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 7, 2007, 5:57 PM EST for Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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: Jan 7, 2007, 5:57 PM EST (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Jan 7, 2007, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Paulding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KFFC 072257
SVRFFC
GAC223-072330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0022.070107T2257Z-070107T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
557 PM EST SUN JAN 7 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EST

* AT 554 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
  MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DALLAS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  HIRAM.

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. ALTHOUGH
CURRENT DATA DOES NOT INDICATE THE EXISTENCE OF A TORNADO...A TORNADO
MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL 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 3387 8505 3372 8493 3386 8473 3404 8475

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 7, 5:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard, Troup	47 min
Jan 7, 5:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Troup	34 min
Jan 7, 6:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	46 min
Jan 7, 6:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Troup	34 min
Jan 7, 6:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Coweta	35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.