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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 26, 1997Colquitt County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 1997, 1:47 PM EST for Colquitt County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 26, 1997, 1:47 PM EST (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 1997, 2:30 PM EST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Colquitt County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 26, 11:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 1593 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 261846 RRA
TORTLH
GAC071-261930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
147 PM EST SUN OCT 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...COLQUITT COUNTY
 
AT 145 PM EST DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN
SOUTHERN COLQUITT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH TOWARDS MOULTRIE.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER
STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE
PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A
SAFE REFUGE FROM A TORNADO. MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING.
 
DO NOT USE YOUR VEHICLE TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE
CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE YOUR CAR AND GO TO A
STRONG BUILDING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 25, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien	46 min
Oct 26, 11:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	34 min
Oct 26, 12:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller	43 min
Oct 26, 12:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun	48 min
Oct 26, 12:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty	50 min
Oct 26, 2:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady	39 min
Oct 26, 3:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Thomas	34 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.