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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 6, 2008, 7:53 AM EST for Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 14 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
- Feb 6, 2008, 7:53 AM EST (12:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2008, 8:07 AM EST
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 5:06 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 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 061253
TORFFC
GAC295-061330-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0002.080206T1253Z-080206T1330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
753 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 830 AM EST
* AT 749 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF LA FAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LINWOOD...NAOMI...NOBLE AND ROCK SPRING.
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 1100 AM EST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHWESTERN 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 3477 8520 3477 8515 3473 8517 3472 8510
3471 8507 3457 8543 3459 8548 3463 8551
3485 8521
TIME...MOT...LOC 1253Z 236DEG 39KT 3462 8543
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KFFC 061307
SVSFFC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
806 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008
GAC295-061316-
/O.CAN.KFFC.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080206T1330Z/
WALKER GA-
806 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WALKER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE ONCE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED...AND WILL EXIT THE
COUNTY BY 815 AM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM EST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 200 PM EST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3477 8520 3477 8515 3473 8517 3472 8510
3471 8507 3457 8543 3459 8548 3463 8551
3485 8521
TIME...MOT...LOC 1306Z 235DEG 51KT 3476 8519
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 6:21 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 39 min |
| Feb 6, 8:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 27 min |
| Feb 6, 8:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Murray | 24 min |
| Feb 6, 10:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 37 min |
| Feb 6, 11:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oglethorpe | 28 min |
| Feb 6, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 24 min |
| Feb 6, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 39 min |
| Feb 6, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 30 min |
| Feb 6, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 35 min |
| Feb 6, 2:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 34 min |
| Feb 6, 3:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 20 min |
| Feb 6, 6:26 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 19 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.