Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 5, 2007, 11:22 AM EST for Spalding 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
- Jan 5, 2007, 11:22 AM EST (16:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2007, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 11:24 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Griffin, GA | COUPLE TREES DOWN ALONG GA-3 IN THE NORTH END OF THE COUNTY. ONE TREE ON ROAD NEAR 19/41 AND MALIER ROAD.ONE TREE DOWN ALONG MLK AND HWY 16 WEST. POWER LINES DOWN COUNTYWIDE. |
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 5, 8:21 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 051622 SVRFFC GAC255-051645- /O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0007.070105T1622Z-070105T1645Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1122 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SPALDING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1145 AM EST * AT 1118 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM EXPERIMENT TO GRIFFIN TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF GRIFFIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EAST GRIFFIN AND TOWALAGA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 3322 8439 3312 8427 3323 8409 3336 8422 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 051639 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1138 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 GAC255-051648- /O.EXP.KFFC.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070105T1645Z/ SPALDING GA- 1138 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SPALDING COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1145 AM EST... AT 1138 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE JUST MOVED EAST OF THE COUNTY...AND THEREFORE THE WARNING FOR SPALDING COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1145 AM EST. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3322 8439 3312 8427 3323 8409 3336 8422 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 8:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 8:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 54 min |
| Jan 5, 9:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 41 min |
| Jan 5, 9:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 23 min |
| Jan 5, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 45 min |
| Jan 5, 10:13 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fulton | 47 min |
| Jan 5, 10:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 33 min |
| Jan 5, 10:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Douglas | 24 min |
| Jan 5, 10:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 min |
| Jan 5, 10:55 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 24 min |
| Jan 5, 10:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 11:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 37 min |
| Jan 5, 11:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 11:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 25 min |
| Jan 5, 11:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 41 min |
| Jan 5, 11:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 33 min |
| Jan 5, 12:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 33 min |
| Jan 5, 12:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 38 min |
| Jan 5, 12:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson, White | 37 min |
| Jan 5, 1:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 36 min |
| Jan 5, 1:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Pulaski | 31 min |
| Jan 5, 2:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Pulaski | 18 min |
| Jan 5, 2:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Twiggs | 39 min |
| Jan 5, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Jan 5, 2:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 43 min |
| Jan 5, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 22 min |
| Jan 5, 4:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 31 min |
Nearby
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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.