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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2001, 12:43 PM EST for Colquitt County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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
- Mar 3, 2001, 12:43 PM EST (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2001, 1:30 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Colquitt County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 031743 TORTLH GAC071-031830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1243 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLQUITT COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES MOULTRIE... * UNTIL 130 PM EST... * AT 1239 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOULTRIE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF PELHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MOULTRIE...DOERUN BY 100 PM EST... 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 3112 8401 3104 8396 3119 8354 3134 8394 .END 17-GOULD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 1:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Early | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift | 24 min |
| Mar 3, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Irwin | 41 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.