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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 1, 2007Baker County, Dougherty County, Mitchell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 11:38 PM EST for Baker County, Dougherty County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 1, 2007, 11:38 PM EST (04:38 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2007, 12:15 AM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baker County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Mitchell County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 1, 11:50 PM EST	TORNADO 2	11 N Mitchell Co Airpor, GA	* 6 FATAL * MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED JUST NORTH OF NEWTON IN BAKER COUNTY. ESTIMATED TIME OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IS 1150 PM EST. REPORT OF 6 FATALITIES AT THE MOBILE HOME PARK IS NOW CONFIRMED FROM GEMA AS OF 730 AM EST...MARCH 2. RATED EF2 ON NEW ENHANCED FUJIT
Mar 1, 11:50 PM EST	TORNADO	11 N Mitchell Co Airpor, GA	MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED JUST NORTH OF NEWTON IN BAKER COUNTY. ESTIMATED TIME OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IS 1150 PM EST. UNCONFIRMED REPORT AT THIS TIME OF 6 FATALITIES AT THE MOBILE HOME PARK.
Mar 2, 12:04 AM EST	TORNADO 2	2 Ne Baconton, GA	TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN BAKER COUNTY MOVED INTO MITCHELL COUNTY AT 1204 AM EST. THIS TORNADO STAYED ON THE GROUND ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY FOR 7 MILES UNTIL CROSSING INTO WORTH COUNTY. 13 STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED IN THE BACONTON AND PLEASANT G
Mar 2, 12:04 AM EST	TORNADO	2 Ne Baconton, GA	TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN BAKER COUNTY MOVED INTO MITCHELL COUNTY AT 1204 AM EST. THIS TORNADO STAYED ON THE GROUND ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY FOR 7 MILES UNTIL CROSSING INTO WORTH COUNTY. 13 STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED IN THE BACONTON AND PLEASANT G
Mar 2, 12:06 AM EST	TORNADO	4 Nne Baconton, GA	TREES DOWN. ONE 18 WHEELER JACKKNIFED IN THE MEDIAN OF U.S. HWY 19.
Mar 2, 12:08 AM EST	TORNADO	1 S Putney, GA	NUMEROUS TREES REPORTED DOWN ON COUNTY LINE ROAD WITH ONE MOBILE HOME IMPACTED BY FALLEN TREE. NO INJURIES REPORTED.
Mar 2, 12:08 AM EST	TORNADO	Putney, GA	NUMEROUS TREES REPORTED DOWN ON COUNTY LINE ROAD WITH ONE MOBILE HOME IMPACTED BY FALLEN TREE. NO INJURIES REPORTED.
Mar 2, 12:10 AM EST	TORNADO	11 N Mitchell Co Airpor, GA	MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 1, 8:39 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 444 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 020439
TORTAE
GAC007-095-205-020515-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0017.070302T0438Z-070302T0515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1138 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BAKER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEWTON
  SOUTHEASTERN DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PUTNEY
  NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1215 AM EST

* AT 1135 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF NEWTON...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  NEWTON BY 1145 PM EST...
  BACONTON BY 1155 PM EST...
  PUTNEY BY MIDNIGHT EST...

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.


LAT...LON 3132 8457 3122 8449 3128 8400 3154 8401

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9-FOURNIER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 8:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman	27 min
Mar 1, 8:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Randolph	36 min
Mar 1, 10:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman	65 min
Mar 1, 11:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Tift, Turner, Worth	49 min
Mar 2, 1:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	24 min
Mar 2, 2:25 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	35 min
Mar 2, 2:20 PM EST	Red Flag Warning	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	29 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.