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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 10:12 PM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2001, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bay County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Argyle, FL | An F1 tornado touched down in extreme southeast Walton County, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 98 and Smokehouse Lake Road. During its brief, intermittent one-mile track across Smokehouse Lake Road, it destroyed two and damaged twelve trailers, damaged |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1342 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
426 WFUS52 KTAE 140314 TORTLH FLC005-059-131-133-140345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1012 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BAY COUNTY IN FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN HOLMES COUNTY IN FLORIDA SOUTHEASTERN WALTON COUNTY IN FLORIDA WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES VERNON... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT... * AT 1004 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VERNON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANTA ROSA BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... VERNON BY 1035 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3038 8621 3030 8596 3071 8559 3090 8600 .END 16-DYE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 9:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Oct 13, 9:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Oct 13, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Washington | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 1:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 25 min |
| Oct 14, 1:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 52 min |
| Oct 14, 2:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 50 min |
| Oct 14, 5:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 26 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.