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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 24, 1997Leon County, Wakulla County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 1997, 3:13 PM EDT for Leon County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 47 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 24, 1997, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 1997, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Leon County, FL, Wakulla County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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.

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 24, 2:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 11 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -294 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 433 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 489 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 241910 RRA
TORTLH
FLC073-129-242000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
313 PM EDT FRI OCT 24 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE FL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHERN FLORIDA

   ...LEON COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN WAKULLA COUNTY
 
AT 312 PM EDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY TALLAHASSEE
DOPPLER RADAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
SPRINGHILL                BY 336 PM EDT
TALLAHASSEE RGL ARPT      BY 343 PM EDT
WOODVILLE                 BY 347 PM EDT
TALLAHASSEE               BY 352 PM EDT
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND DOORS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR
A STURDI ER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 24, 6:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	33 min
Oct 24, 11:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	46 min
Oct 24, 12:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	32 min
Oct 24, 12:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun	64 min
Oct 24, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden	47 min
Oct 24, 2:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	47 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.