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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 1:58 AM EDT for Montgomery County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2007, 1:58 AM EDT (05:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2007, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 150557 TORFFC GAC209-150630- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0052.070415T0558Z-070415T0630Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 158 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 230 AM EDT * AT 156 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TARRYTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HIGGSTON AND KIBBEE. 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 3230 8266 3214 8261 3218 8245 3236 8241 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KFFC 150608 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 208 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 GAC209-150630- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0052.000000T0000Z-070415T0630Z/ MONTGOMERY GA- 208 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 AM EDT FOR NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY... AT 204 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUEST WEST OF TARRYTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KIBBEE. TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3230 8266 3214 8261 3218 8245 3236 8241 $$
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, 1:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.