Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 64, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 2007, 5:10 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 18 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 21, 2007, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2007, 5:28 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pulaski County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 212110
TORFFC
GAC235-212145-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0064.070921T2110Z-070921T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
510 PM EDT FRI SEP 21 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT
* AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTH
OF HAWKINSVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BROWNDALE.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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 3211 8351 3228 8360 3228 8359 3229 8361
3237 8347 3216 8331 3215 8332
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 158DEG 23KT 3211 8341
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 212128
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
527 PM EDT FRI SEP 21 2007
GAC235-212137-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0064.000000T0000Z-070921T2145Z/
PULASKI GA-
527 PM EDT FRI SEP 21 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PULASKI COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HAWKINSVILLE AND BROWNDALE.
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SUSPECTED TO BE
PRODUCING A TORNADO. HOWEVER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH
AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3211 8351 3228 8360 3228 8359 3229 8361
3237 8347 3216 8331 3215 8332
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 158DEG 23KT 3221 8346
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 21 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.