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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 12, 2001Madison County, Florida; Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 1:35 AM EDT for Madison County, Florida; Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 12, 2001, 1:35 AM EDT (05:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2001, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, FL, Lowndes County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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°0°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 120536
TORTLH
FLC079-GAC185-120600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
135 AM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES MADISON...
  SOUTHERN LOWNDES COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT...

* AT 135 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF
  MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 200 AM EDT...
  MADISON...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR FLORIDA AND GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3054 8357 3041 8337 3072 8314 3071 8341

.END

7-TREXLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEMadison27 min
Jun 11, 8:19 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEJefferson, Madison26 min
Jun 11, 8:41 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEMadison34 min
Jun 11, 9:13 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEMadison62 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
Jun 11, 9:58 PM EDTTornado WarningTAELowndes32 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2001Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 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.