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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 3, 2001Baker County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2001, 9:37 PM EST for Baker County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2001, 9:37 PM EST (02:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2001, 10:00 PM EST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baker 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
Mar 3, 7:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	3 hr
Mar 3, 9:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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 
WUUS52 KTAE 040238
SVRTLH
GAC007-040300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
937 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BAKER COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1000 PM EST...

* AT 937 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 2 MILES NORTH OF BETHANY...
  OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF MORGAN...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HAWKINSTOWN BY 940 PM EST...
  NEWTON BY 945 PM EST...

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM...BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING CONDITIONS.

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT.


LAT...LON 3142 8462 3126 8462 3127 8450 3113 8451
          3142 8419

.END

12-WATSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 9:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early	23 min
Mar 3, 9:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Miller, Seminole	35 min
Mar 3, 9:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun	32 min
Mar 3, 9:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	40 min
Mar 3, 9:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	45 min
Mar 3, 9:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Mitchell	51 min
Mar 3, 10:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt	27 min
Mar 3, 11:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook	26 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.