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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 15, 2001Calhoun County, Dougherty County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2001, 5:05 AM EST for Calhoun County, Dougherty County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 15, 2001, 5:05 AM EST (10:05 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2001, 5:30 AM EST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Calhoun County, GA, Dougherty 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 15, 2:30 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 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 
WFUS52 KTAE 151005
TORTLH
GAC037-095-151030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
505 AM EST THU MAR 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  WESTERN DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES PUTNEY...

* UNTIL 530 AM EST...

* AT 500 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  DEVELOPING TORNADO ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORGAN...MOVING EAST 
  AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PUTNEY BY 525 AM EST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING
FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR
A REINFORCED SHELTER.

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION-TAKE COVER NOW THIS TORNADO IS
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREME DAMAGE.

LAT...LON 3149 8458 3143 8455 3147 8408 3161 8437

.END

12-WATSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 5:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	41 min
Mar 15, 5:29 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	46 min
Mar 15, 5:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	46 min
Mar 15, 6:04 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	41 min
Mar 15, 8:02 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Thomas	28 min
Mar 15, 8:21 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Cook	24 min
Mar 15, 8:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Cook, Lowndes	30 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.