Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 19, 2001, 11:30 AM EST for Randolph County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 11:30 AM EST (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Randolph 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 191631 TORTLH GAC243-191700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1130 AM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES CUTHBERT... * UNTIL NOON EST... * AT 1123 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CUTHBERT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT GAINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CUTHBERT BY 1135 AM EST... SHELLMAN BY 1145 AM EST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR GEORGIA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. LAT...LON 3178 8496 3162 8492 3173 8457 3192 8480 .END 17-GOULD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 1:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Randolph, Terrell | 47 min |
| Jan 19, 2:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee, Terrell | 41 min |
| Jan 19, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 47 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.