Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 53, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 2:00 AM EDT for Johnson County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 2:00 AM EDT (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2007, 2:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Johnson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 64 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 150600 TORFFC GAC167-150645- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0053.070415T0600Z-070415T0645Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 200 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 245 AM EDT * AT 156 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPANN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KITE. 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 3266 8278 3255 8267 3267 8249 3283 8259 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KFFC 150614 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 214 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 GAC167-150645- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-070415T0645Z/ JOHNSON GA- 214 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 AM EDT FOR JOHNSON COUNTY... AT 212 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF ADRIAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3266 8278 3255 8267 3267 8249 3283 8259 $$
000 WWUS52 KFFC 150635 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 233 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 GAC167-150643- /O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-070415T0645Z/ JOHNSON GA- 233 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF EASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY AND SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. TO REPORT WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3266 8278 3255 8267 3267 8249 3283 8259 $$
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, 1:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.