Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 61, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 2007, 2:33 PM EDT for Murray County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Sep 14, 2007, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2007, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Murray County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KFFC 141833
TORFFC
GAC213-141900-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0061.070914T1833Z-070914T1900Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
233 PM EDT FRI SEP 14 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 300 PM EDT
* AT 228 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CHATSWORTH...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
RAMHURST...FORT MOUNTAIN STATE PARK AND CRANDALL.
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 3490 8464 3472 8465 3462 8466 3462 8474
3460 8486 3461 8488 3479 8485 3491 8479
TIME...MOT...LOC 1833Z 250DEG 31KT 3472 8482
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KFFC 141845
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
244 PM EDT FRI SEP 14 2007
GAC213-141900-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0061.000000T0000Z-070914T1900Z/
MURRAY GA-
244 PM EDT FRI SEP 14 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR MURRAY
COUNTY...
AT 240 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS AREA OF ROTATION WAS
LOCATED 1 MILE NORTH OF HOLLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
RAMHURST...CHATSWORTH AND FORT MOUNTAIN STATE PARK.
IF YOU SEE A FUNNEL CLOUD...ROTATION...OR A TORNADO...WAIT UNTIL
AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3490 8464 3472 8465 3462 8466 3462 8474
3460 8486 3461 8488 3479 8485 3491 8479
TIME...MOT...LOC 1844Z 242DEG 30KT 3472 8476
$$000
WWUS52 KFFC 141859
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
258 PM EDT FRI SEP 14 2007
GAC213-141908-
/O.EXP.KFFC.TO.W.0061.000000T0000Z-070914T1900Z/
MURRAY GA-
258 PM EDT FRI SEP 14 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MURRAY COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE
AT 300 PM EDT...
THE ROTATION IN THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
IF YOU SAW DAMAGE 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 3490 8464 3472 8465 3462 8466 3462 8474
3460 8486 3461 8488 3479 8485 3491 8479
TIME...MOT...LOC 1858Z 242DEG 30KT 3477 8463
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 6:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 7:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker | 29 min |
| Sep 14, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Douglas | 12 min |
| Sep 14, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 25 min |
| Sep 14, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 24 min |
| Sep 14, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 37 min |
| Sep 14, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 36 min |
| Sep 14, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Upson | 46 min |
| Sep 14, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 34 min |
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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.