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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 6:57 PM EST for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 18 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, 6:57 PM EST (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jones County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 012357
TORFFC
GAC169-020015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0027.070301T2357Z-070302T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
657 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 715 PM EST
* AT 654 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
GRISWOLDVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HADDOCK.
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...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE
A STURDY 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 3294 8362 3296 8362 3308 8345 3310 8341
3307 8341 3291 8336 3289 8341 3285 8350
3285 8352
$$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, 5:00 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 |
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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.