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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 1, 2007Marion County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 5:00 PM EST for Marion County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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: Mar 1, 2007, 5:00 PM EST (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 2007, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marion County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 PDS	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 012200
TORFFC
GAC197-012230-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0016.070301T2200Z-070301T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
500 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MARION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 530 PM EST

* AT 455 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BUENA
  VISTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  OAKLAND AND TAZEWELL.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR 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 3236 8467 3226 8449 3240 8440 3254 8445

$$

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, 4:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Taylor	36 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.