Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 7:34 PM EDT for 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, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 112335 TORTLH FLC079-120000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 734 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT... * AT 731 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF GREENVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GREENVILLE BY 735 PM EDT... HAMBURG BY 750 PM EDT... LOVETT BY 755 PM EDT... CHERRY LAKE...PINETTA BY 800 PM EDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. .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, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, 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.