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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 15, 2007Dodge County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 1:22 AM EDT for Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. 5 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: Apr 15, 2007, 1:22 AM EDT (05:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2007, 1:45 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dodge County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 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
Apr 15, 1:23 AM EDT	TORNADO	1 W Eastman, GA	TOTAL PATH LENGTH WAS 4.5 MILES... MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS 100 YARDS. THE TORNADO WAS RATED EF1 WITH A MAXIMUM WIND SPEED WAS 90 MPH. RETAIL BUILDINGS ON U.S. 23 RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE. AN ADJACENT GREENHOUSE WAS DESTROYED. THE ANNOUNCERS BOOTH AT THE EASTMAN HI
Apr 15, 1:29 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Eastman, GA	ONE TREE BLOWN DOWN ON A ROAD IN EASTMAN.
Apr 15, 1:38 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Eastman, GA	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN...GUST TO 50 MPH ESTIMATED.
Apr 15, 1:45 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Nw Eastman, GA	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN...ONE TREE DOWN ON A HOME.
Apr 15, 1:45 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Eastman, GA	OVERTURNED MOBILE HOME WITH POSSIBLE OCCUPANTS INSIDE. PLATE GLASS WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF STORE FRONTS IN A SHOPPING CENTER.

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
Apr 14, 11:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 405 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 150522
TORFFC
GAC091-150545-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0048.070415T0522Z-070415T0545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
122 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 145 AM EDT

* AT 118 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  EASTMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  PLAINFIELD.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE
PLACE.

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 3212 8328 3204 8315 3215 8297 3238 8321

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	53 min
Apr 14, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	25 min
Apr 14, 10:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	29 min
Apr 14, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	27 min
Apr 15, 1:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	35 min
Apr 15, 1:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	44 min
Apr 15, 1:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	34 min
Apr 15, 1:43 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	32 min
Apr 15, 1:50 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Treutlen	25 min
Apr 15, 1:58 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Montgomery	32 min
Apr 15, 2:00 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson	35 min
Apr 15, 2:04 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel	41 min
Apr 15, 2:17 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Treutlen	28 min
Apr 15, 2:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel	35 min
Apr 15, 3:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp	29 min
Apr 15, 3:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crisp	37 min
Apr 15, 3:33 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Wilcox	42 min
Apr 15, 3:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley	25 min
Apr 15, 3:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	39 min
Apr 15, 4:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	50 min
Apr 15, 9:55 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	FFC	Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Towns, Union and 1 more	10 hr
Apr 15, 3:54 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 83 more	28 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.