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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 9:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 1:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 25 min |
| Jun 11, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 8:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 10:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 10:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 10:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 2:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 6 hr |
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.