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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 3:23 AM EDT for Crisp County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. 3 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, 3:23 AM EDT (07:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2007, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crisp County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 3:27 AM EDT | TORNADO | 6 W Arabi, GA | THE TORNADO TRAVELED NORTHEAST AND LIFTED AT 339 AM EDT ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARABI. TOTAL PATH LENGTH IN CRISP COUNTY WAS 7.5 MILES. PATH WIDTH WAS 200 YARDS. THE TORNADO WAS RATED EF1 WITH A MAXIMUM WIND SPEED OF 100 MPH. NEAR ARABI...A MOBILE HOME WAS |
| Apr 15, 3:30 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cordele, GA | SIDING WAS TORN OFF A MOBILE HOME AND A SWING SET WAS BLOWN OVER. |
| Apr 15, 4:00 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Arabi, GA | NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN BLOCKING SEVERAL ROADS. SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS ALSO REPORTED. |
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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 150723 TORFFC GAC081-150800- /O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0057.070415T0723Z-070415T0800Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 323 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CRISP COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 AM EDT * AT 322 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WENONA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CORDELE AND HATLEY. 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 3191 8394 3180 8381 3185 8360 3203 8363 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KFFC 150737 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 337 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 GAC081-150800- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0057.000000T0000Z-070415T0800Z/ CRISP GA- 337 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM EDT FOR EASTERN CRISP COUNTY... AT 334 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ARABI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HATLEY AND TREMONT. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3191 8377 3183 8374 3185 8360 3203 8363 $$
000 WWUS52 KFFC 150745 SVSFFC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 345 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 GAC081-150800- /O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0057.000000T0000Z-070415T0800Z/ CRISP GA- 345 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM EDT FOR NORTHEASTERN CRISP COUNTY... AT 343 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HATLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM HAS WEAKENED SLIGHTLY BUT IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO IN EXTREME EASTERN CRISP COUNTY. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TREMONT. 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 3195 8371 3187 8368 3185 8360 3203 8363 $$
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, 2:04 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, 3:33 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.