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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 6, 2008, 6:26 PM EST for Montgomery County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 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, 6:26 PM EST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2008, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Montgomery County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 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 062326
TORFFC
GAC209-062345-
/O.NEW.KFFC.TO.W.0003.080206T2326Z-080206T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
626 PM EST WED FEB 6 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 645 PM EST
* AT 624 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MOUNT
VERNON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
KIBBEE AND HIGGSTON.
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 3211 8262 3226 8263 3235 8242 3228 8243
3228 8244 3227 8243 3217 8245
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 241DEG 43KT 3223 8255
$$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, 7:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker | 14 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 |
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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.