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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 1:50 AM EDT for Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
- Apr 15, 2007, 1:50 AM EDT (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2007, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Treutlen County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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, 2:04 AM EDT | TORNADO | 2 Se Rockledge, GA | TOTAL PATH LENGTH WAS 10 MILES...MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS 1/4 MILE. THE TORNADO WAS RATED EF1 WITH A MAXIMUM WIND SPEED OF 100 MPH. HUNDREDS OF TREES WERE DOWNED. TWO HOUSES SOUTHEAST OF ORIANNA WERE DAMAGED AND TWO OUTBUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED. A SILO WAS DESTRO |
| Apr 15, 2:15 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Soperton, GA | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND HOMES DAMAGED...POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KFFC 150550
TORFFC
GAC283-150615-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0051.070415T0550Z-070415T0615Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
150 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
TREUTLEN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 215 AM EDT
* AT 148 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF LOTHAIR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
SOPERTON.
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 3249 8272 3231 8273 3225 8267 3235 8240
3250 8248
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 150605
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
205 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007
GAC283-150615-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0051.000000T0000Z-070415T0615Z/
TREUTLEN GA-
205 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 AM EDT FOR TREUTLEN
COUNTY...
AT 204 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SOPERTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR
PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...LEAVE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3249 8272 3231 8273 3225 8267 3235 8240
3250 8248
$$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, 1:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge | 23 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, 1:58 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 |
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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.