Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2007
Tornado Watch 11
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 7, 2007, 3:12 PM CST for 13 counties in Alabama; 73 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2007, 3:12 PM CST (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2007, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 86 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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.
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 45 min |
| Jan 7, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 47 min |
| Jan 7, 4:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pike | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 4:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Bullock, Elmore, Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar and 8 more | 233 days |
| Jan 7, 4:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 34 min |
| Jan 7, 4:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 16 min |
| Jan 7, 5:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Troup | 34 min |
| Jan 7, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 52 min |
| Jan 7, 5:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 35 min |
| Jan 7, 5:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 18 min |
| Jan 7, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 29 min |
| Jan 7, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 44 min |
| Jan 7, 6:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette, Spalding | 28 min |
| Jan 7, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 36 min |
| Jan 7, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 45 min |
| Jan 7, 7:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale | 24 min |
| Jan 7, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 30 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 11:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 39 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 36 more | 84 min |
| Jan 7, 5:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barrow, Clarke, DeKalb, Elbert, Forsyth, Fulton and 13 more | 86 min |
Nearby
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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.