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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 15, 2007Bleckley County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 3:38 AM EDT for Bleckley County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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, 3:38 AM EDT (07:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2007, 4:03 AM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bleckley County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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.

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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 150738
TORFFC
GAC023-150815-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0059.070415T0738Z-070415T0815Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 AM EDT

* AT 334 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF COCHRAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  EMPIRE...FRAZIER...POWELL AND GOLDSBORO.

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 3236 8343 3227 8335 3245 8315 3253 8321

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 150803
SVSFFC

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

GAC023-150813-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-070415T0815Z/
BLECKLEY GA-
403 AM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BLECKLEY COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SUSPECTED TO BE 
PRODUCING A TORNADO. HOWEVER...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...VERY HEAVY 
RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

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 3236 8343 3227 8335 3245 8315 3253 8321

$$

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, 3:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crisp	37 min
Apr 15, 3:33 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Wilcox	42 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.