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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 10:15 PM EST for Bleckley County, Houston County, Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 1, 2007, 10:15 PM EST (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 10:45 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bleckley County, GA, Houston County, GA, Twiggs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 10:18 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Jeffersonville, GA | 7-10 TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE, ESPECIALLY ALONG HWY 96 EAST. |
| Mar 1, 10:35 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 3 S Allentown, GA | ONE BUSINESS ALONG INTERSTATE 16 HAD A BACK PORCH DESTROYED. |
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, 8:39 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 412 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 020315 TORFFC GAC023-153-289-020345- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0039.070302T0315Z-070302T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1015 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA EASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1045 PM EST * AT 1010 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF BONAIRE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO JEFFERSONVILLE. 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 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 3251 8370 3236 8353 3251 8319 3273 8331 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 020327 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1027 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007 GAC153-020337- /O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-070302T0345Z/ HOUSTON GA- 1027 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR HOUSTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY...AND THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3257 8355 3238 8347 3251 8319 3273 8331 $$ GAC023-289-020345- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-070302T0345Z/ BLECKLEY GA-TWIGGS GA- 1027 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM EST FOR SOUTHERN TWIGGS AND NORTHERN BLECKLEY COUNTIES... AT 1023 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FIVE POINTS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CARY... BROWN HILL...JEFFERSONVILLE AND DANVILLE. 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 FIRST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. 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 3257 8355 3238 8347 3251 8319 3273 8331 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 7:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 7:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 7:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock | 39 min |
| Mar 1, 7:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 7:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 7:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 17 min |
| Mar 1, 7:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 7:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Warren | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 8:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 8:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Webster | 20 min |
| Mar 1, 9:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Sumter | 43 min |
| Mar 1, 9:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly, Macon | 27 min |
| Mar 1, 9:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston | 24 min |
| Mar 1, 10:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wilkinson | 23 min |
| Mar 1, 10:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 2:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Toombs | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 3:55 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 75 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:47 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 75 more | 9 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.