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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 6:49 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2001, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, FL, Madison County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 856 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
353 WFUS52 KTAE 112249 TORTLH FLC065-079-112315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 649 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA WESTERN MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT... * AT 646 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF LAMONT...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF MONTICELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LAMONT BY 650 PM EDT... SIRMANS BY 700 PM EDT... AUCILLA...MOSELEY HALL BY 710 PM EDT... GREENVILLE BY 715 PM EDT... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON VEHICLES. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT... DITCH...OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD. .END 48-TURNAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 3:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.