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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 7, 2008Carroll County, Douglas County, Paulding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2008, 7:58 PM EST for Carroll County, Douglas County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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: Mar 7, 2008, 7:58 PM EST (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2008, 8:30 PM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Paulding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 96 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KFFC 080058
TORFFC
GAC045-097-223-080130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0017.080308T0058Z-080308T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
758 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
  SOUTH CENTRAL PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 830 PM EST

* AT 757 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR VILLA
  RICA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO NEW
  GEORGIA.

TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE.

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 3387 8490 3380 8476 3362 8496 3367 8502
TIME...MOT...LOC 0058Z 215DEG 37KT 3370 8495

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 080115
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
813 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008

GAC045-097-223-080130-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-080308T0130Z/
DOUGLAS GA-CARROLL GA-PAULDING GA-
813 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM EST FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL PAULDING...NORTHEASTERN CARROLL AND NORTHWESTERN DOUGLAS
COUNTIES...

AT 812 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW GEORGIA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE 
THESE COUNTIES.  THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING LITTLE OR NO 
LIGHTNING...SO IT MAY GIVE NO ADVANCE WARNING OF APPROACHING.

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 FIRST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

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 3374 8497 3387 8490 3380 8476 3377 8479
      3377 8480 3376 8480 3362 8496
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 215DEG 37KT 3380 8485

$$

000 
WWUS52 KFFC 080121
SVSFFC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
820 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008

GAC045-080130-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-080308T0130Z/
CARROLL GA-
820 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT TRIGGERED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF CARROLL COUNTY.

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 3370 8491 3373 8490 3374 8489 3375 8490
      3378 8490 3380 8493 3387 8490 3380 8476
      3367 8490
TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 215DEG 37KT 3386 8480

$$

GAC097-223-080130-
/O.CON.KFFC.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-080308T0130Z/
DOUGLAS GA-PAULDING GA-
820 PM EST FRI MAR 7 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM EST FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL PAULDING AND NORTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTIES...

AT 818 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW GEORGIA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THERE IS LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING WITH THESE STORMS...SO DO NOT EXPECT 
TO HEAR THUNDER PRIOR TO THE STORMS ARRIVAL.

IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE
A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER 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 3370 8491 3373 8490 3374 8489 3375 8490
      3378 8490 3380 8493 3387 8490 3380 8476
      3367 8490
TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 215DEG 37KT 3386 8480

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 8:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	28 min
Mar 8, 2:36 PM EST	Fire Weather Watch	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 34 more	12 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.