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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 15, 2001Brooks County, Colquitt County, Cook County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2001, 8:21 AM EST for Brooks County, Colquitt County, Cook County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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, 8:21 AM EST (13:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2001, 8:45 AM EST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Brooks County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook 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, 7:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 522 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 151321
TORTLH
GAC027-071-075-151345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN COLQUITT COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN COOK COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES ADEL...

* UNTIL 845 AM EST...

* AT 816 AM EST A SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 20 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF ADEL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUITMAN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ADEL...SPARKS BY 840 AM EST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM EST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR FLORIDA AND GEORGIA.

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

THIS IS A DANGEROUS 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.

LAT...LON 3103 8373 3087 8374 3109 8336 3118 8344
          3116 8352 3109 8361

.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, 5:29 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, 8:45 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.