Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 14, 2001, 2:38 AM EDT for Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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, 2:38 AM EDT (06:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2001, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wakulla County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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.
900 WFUS52 KTAE 140639 TORTLH FLC129-140730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 238 AM EDT SUN OCT 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES CRAWFORDVILLE... * UNTIL 330 AM EDT... * AT 234 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRAWFORDVILLE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARRABELLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CRAWFORDVILLE BY 305 AM EDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. IF A TORNADO THREATENS YOUR LOCATION GO TO YOUR SAFE ROOM OR TORNADO SHELTER. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A SAFE ROOM OR TORNADO SHELTER...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME. LAT...LON 3006 8460 3000 8448 3022 8420 3031 8440 .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, 2:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 25 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 |
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.