Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 11:01 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Leon County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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, 11:01 PM EDT (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2001, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 229 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 120301 TORTLH FLC065-073-120330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1101 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES MONTICELLO... NORTHEASTERN LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT... * AT 1057 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF MONTICELLO...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF TALLAHASSEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MONTICELLO BY 1125 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, 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, 8:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 62 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 12, 1:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.