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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 15, 2007Crisp County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2007, 3:16 AM EDT for Crisp County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 15, 2007, 3:16 AM EDT (07:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2007, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crisp County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:17 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
Apr 15, 3:27 AM EDT	TORNADO	6 W Arabi, GA	THE TORNADO TRAVELED NORTHEAST AND LIFTED AT 339 AM EDT ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARABI. TOTAL PATH LENGTH IN CRISP COUNTY WAS 7.5 MILES. PATH WIDTH WAS 200 YARDS. THE TORNADO WAS RATED EF1 WITH A MAXIMUM WIND SPEED OF 100 MPH. NEAR ARABI...A MOBILE HOME WAS
Apr 15, 3:30 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Cordele, GA	SIDING WAS TORN OFF A MOBILE HOME AND A SWING SET WAS BLOWN OVER.

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
Apr 14, 11:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 405 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 150715
SVRFFC
GAC081-150745-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0082.070415T0716Z-070415T0745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
316 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 345 AM EDT

* AT 313 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RAINES...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WENONA...CORDELE AND HATLEY.

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 3191 8394 3180 8381 3181 8360 3202 8361
      3203 8385

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	53 min
Apr 14, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	25 min
Apr 14, 10:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	29 min
Apr 14, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	27 min
Apr 15, 1:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	35 min
Apr 15, 1:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge	23 min
Apr 15, 1:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	44 min
Apr 15, 1:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	34 min
Apr 15, 1:43 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	32 min
Apr 15, 1:50 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Treutlen	25 min
Apr 15, 1:58 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Montgomery	32 min
Apr 15, 2:00 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson	35 min
Apr 15, 2:04 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel	41 min
Apr 15, 2:17 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Treutlen	28 min
Apr 15, 2:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel	35 min
Apr 15, 3:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crisp	37 min
Apr 15, 3:33 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Wilcox	42 min
Apr 15, 3:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley	25 min
Apr 15, 3:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	39 min
Apr 15, 4:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	50 min
Apr 15, 9:55 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	FFC	Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Towns, Union and 1 more	10 hr
Apr 15, 3:54 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 83 more	28 hr

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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.