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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 11, 2001Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia; Madison County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 9:13 PM EDT for Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia; Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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
Jun 11, 2001, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2001, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, FL, Brooks County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 7:15 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2001-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 483 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2001-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
483 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 120115
TORTLH
FLC079-GAC027-185-120215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
913 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  SOUTHWESTERN LOWNDES COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT...

* AT 907 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO  
  INDICATE SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES      
  GENERALLY WEST OF MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH INTO GEORGIA.

* TORNADOES WILL BE NEAR...
  GREENVILLE...BY 920 PM EDT...
  HAMBURG BY 930 PM EDT...
  LOVETT BY 930 PM EDT...
  CHERRY LAKE...945 PM EDT...
  NANKIN...EMPRESS BY 1015 PM EDT...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3039 8374 3030 8356 3066 8326 3080 8353

.END

48-TURNAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 8:41 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEBrooks, Lowndes34 min
Jun 11, 9:58 PM EDTTornado WarningTAELowndes32 min
Jun 12, 1:35 AM EDTTornado WarningTAELowndes25 min
Jun 11, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEMadison27 min
Jun 11, 8:19 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEJefferson, Madison26 min
Jun 11, 9:50 PM EDTTornado WarningTAELeon, Wakulla40 min
Jun 11, 10:13 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEMadison32 min
Jun 11, 10:27 PM EDTTornado WarningTAELeon48 min
Jun 11, 10:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAELeon4 hr
Jun 11, 10:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAELeon5 hr
Jun 11, 11:01 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEJefferson, Leon29 min
Jun 12, 2:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAELeon6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2001Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.