Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 5, 2007, 10:36 AM EST for Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Jan 5, 2007, 10:36 AM EST (15:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2007, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Douglas County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 10:55 AM EST | HAIL 0.88 | 4 Se Douglasville, GA | |
| Jan 5, 10:55 AM EST | HAIL 1 | 4 Se Douglasville, GA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 8:21 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 051535 TORFFC GAC097-051600- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0004.070105T1536Z-070105T1600Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1036 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1100 AM EST * AT 1034 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CHAPEL HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MIDWAY...SWEETWATER CREEK STATE PARK AND LITHIA SPRINGS. DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE STORMS PATH AND TO SHELTER. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO...GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST RESORT. 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 3360 8479 3366 8466 3375 8455 3384 8470 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 051557 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1055 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 GAC097-051605- /O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070105T1600Z/ DOUGLAS GA- 1055 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1100 AM EST... AT 1055 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE ONCE TORNADIC STORM HAD WEAKENED...AND THEREFORE LESSONING THE TORNADO THREAT AT THIS TIME. THE WEAKENING STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SWEETWATER CREEK STATE PARK...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1100 AM EST. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3360 8479 3366 8466 3375 8455 3384 8470 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 8:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 8:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 54 min |
| Jan 5, 9:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 41 min |
| Jan 5, 9:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 23 min |
| Jan 5, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 45 min |
| Jan 5, 10:13 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fulton | 47 min |
| Jan 5, 10:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 33 min |
| Jan 5, 10:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 min |
| Jan 5, 10:55 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 24 min |
| Jan 5, 10:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 11:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 37 min |
| Jan 5, 11:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 23 min |
| Jan 5, 11:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 11:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 25 min |
| Jan 5, 11:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 41 min |
| Jan 5, 11:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 33 min |
| Jan 5, 12:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 33 min |
| Jan 5, 12:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 38 min |
| Jan 5, 12:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson, White | 37 min |
| Jan 5, 1:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 36 min |
| Jan 5, 1:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Pulaski | 31 min |
| Jan 5, 2:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Pulaski | 18 min |
| Jan 5, 2:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Twiggs | 39 min |
| Jan 5, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Jan 5, 2:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 43 min |
| Jan 5, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 22 min |
| Jan 5, 4:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.