Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2001, 5:29 AM EST for Baker County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 5:29 AM EST (10:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2001, 6:15 AM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Baker County, GA, Mitchell County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 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 15, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 151029 TORTLH GAC007-205-151115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 529 AM EST THU MAR 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BAKER COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES NEWTON... NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 615 AM EST... * AT 525 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NEWTON BY 535 AM EST... BACONTON BY 600 AM EST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDkA AND GEORGIA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. LAT...LON 3132 8450 3124 8440 3126 8402 3144 8417 .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, 5:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Dougherty | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 5:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Miller, Seminole | 41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.