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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 15, 2007Emanuel County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 2:04 AM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2007, 2:45 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Emanuel County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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
Apr 15, 2:15 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Adrian, GA	POSSIBLE TORNADO. ONE BUILDING COMPLETELY DESTROYED...3 OTHERS WITH SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
Apr 15, 2:40 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	10 W Twin City, GA	SEVERAL STRUCTURES DAMAGED...NUMEROUS TREES DOWN...DEBRIS SCATTERED IN ROADS.

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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 150603
TORFFC
GAC107-150645-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0054.070415T0604Z-070415T0645Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 245 AM EDT

* AT 201 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF COVENA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  SWAINSBORO AND MODOC.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
PENNY SIZED HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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 3252 8264 3244 8238 3266 8206 3281 8226

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 150629
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
228 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

GAC107-150645-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0054.000000T0000Z-070415T0645Z/
EMANUEL GA-
228 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 AM EDT FOR EMANUEL
COUNTY...

AT 225 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR COVENA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 
NUNEZ...SWAINSBORO...AND LEXSY.

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 3252 8264 3244 8238 3266 8206 3281 8226

$$

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, 2:00 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson	35 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.