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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 10:37 PM EST for Laurens County, Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 10:37 PM EST (03:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Laurens County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 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, 10:45 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 7 Nw Dublin, GA | SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 338 AND 441. |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | TORNADO | 12 Se Irwinton, GA | TORNADO REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS CONFIRMED AT LEAST ONE HOME DAMAGED NEAR NICKELSVILLE. |
| Mar 1, 10:57 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 10 W Wrightsville, GA | POSSIBLE TORNADO. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 57. |
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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 020337 TORFFC GAC175-319-020400- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0040.070302T0337Z-070302T0400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1037 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN WILKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1100 PM EST * AT 1036 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ALLENTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MONTROSE AND NICKLESVILLE. 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. TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. 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 3269 8330 3250 8320 3266 8282 3284 8298 $$
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, 10:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Twiggs | 30 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 |
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.