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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2001, 8:17 PM EST for Leon County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 28 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 12, 2001, 8:17 PM EST (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2001, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Leon County, FL, Wakulla County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
552 WFUS52 KTAE 130118 TORTLH FLC073-129-130145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 817 PM EST MON MAR 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA NORTHWESTERN WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 845 PM EST... * AT 812 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF SMITH CREEK. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SMITH CREEK BY 815 PM EST... OTTER CAMP BY 820 PM EST... BROWN HOUSE BY 835 PM EST... HIGHWAY 267 BY 835 PM EST... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. LAT...LON 3028 8474 3012 8467 3021 8437 3041 8446 .END 18-WOOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 7:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty, Wakulla | 38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.