Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 4:54 PM EST for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 3 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
- Mar 1, 2007, 4:54 PM EST (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Taylor County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 5:20 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Rupert, GA | NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN NEAR HIGHWAYS 19 AND 90. |
| Mar 1, 5:25 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ne Rupert, GA | POSSIBLE TORNADO. HOME DAMAGED ON CROSSROAD SCHOOL ROAD WITH ONE PERSON TRAPPED. |
| Mar 1, 5:35 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Potterville, GA | POSSIBLE TORNADO DAMAGED UNKN NUMBER OF HOMES AND BUILDINGS AND DOWNED NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES ON BEAR ROAD. ROLLED A MOBILE HOME. ONE PERSON TRAPPED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 10:47 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KFFC 012155
TORFFC
GAC269-012230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0015.070301T2154Z-070301T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
454 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 530 PM EST
* AT 450 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BUTLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
REYNOLDS.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO A
BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...LEAVE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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 3237 8438 3246 8441 3271 8423 3267 8419
3266 8409 3262 8406 3256 8406 3240 8420
3239 8425 3233 8425 3231 8429
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 39 min |
| Mar 1, 4:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Webster | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 4:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 5:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Taylor | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 5:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 5:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb | 25 min |
| Mar 1, 5:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 5:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Monroe | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 6:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb | 42 min |
| Mar 1, 6:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Taylor | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 6:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 41 min |
| Mar 1, 6:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jones | 40 min |
| Mar 1, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Putnam | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 6:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 6:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 6:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jones | 18 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.