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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 14, 2001Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 14, 2001, 2:05 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. 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: Oct 14, 2001, 2:05 AM EDT (06:05 UTC)
Expired: Oct 14, 2001, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Franklin County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 70 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

543 
WFUS52 KTAE 140605
TORTLH
FLC037-140630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
205 AM EDT SUN OCT 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES CARRABELLE...

* UNTIL 230 AM EDT...

* AT 154 AM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES 
SOUTHWEST OF CARRABELLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH TOWARD THE 
APALACHICOLA NATIONAL FOREST.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ON SAINT GEORGE 
ISLAND ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SAME STORM...TAKING A ROOF OFF OF A 
HOUSE AT ABOUT 140 AM. THIS STORM THEN CROSSED THE SOUND.

A TORNADO WATCH JUST RECENTLY EXPIRED 200 AM EDT SUNDAY 
MORNING...BUT THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES WILL REMAIN FOR ABOUT ANOTHER 
HOUR. GO TO A CENTRAL ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR RESIDENCE FOR 
SAFETY.

LAT...LON 2982 8487 2971 8471 2994 8425 3002 8466

.END

18-WOOL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 10:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Oct 13, 10:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Oct 13, 11:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	33 min
Oct 13, 11:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Washington	41 min
Oct 14, 2:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Wakulla	52 min
Oct 14, 3:25 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Leon, Wakulla	50 min
Oct 14, 6:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson	26 min

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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.