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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 7, 2007Troup County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jan 7, 2007, 5:56 PM EST for Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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: Jan 7, 2007, 5:56 PM EST (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Jan 7, 2007, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Troup County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 7, 4:12 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 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 072257
TORFFC
GAC285-072330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0009.070107T2256Z-070107T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
556 PM EST SUN JAN 7 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EST

* AT 554 PM EST (454 PM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER 
  RADAR INDICATED A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A 
  TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF ABBOTTSFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO A
BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST SUNDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
1100 PM EST SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.

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 3303 8545 3289 8531 3307 8504 3317 8511

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 7, 5:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard, Troup	47 min
Jan 7, 5:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	33 min
Jan 7, 6:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	46 min
Jan 7, 6:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Troup	34 min
Jan 7, 6:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Coweta	35 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.